Date: Sun, 10 Mar 1996 13:59:39 -0700 From: Nate Williams <nate@sri.MT.net> To: Superuser <root@buffnet.net> Cc: Nate Williams <nate@sri.MT.net>, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: typeahead Message-ID: <199603102059.NAA09654@rocky.sri.MT.net> In-Reply-To: <Pine.SCO.3.91.960310135919.16035D-100000@buffnet3.buffnet.net> References: <199603101639.JAA09382@rocky.sri.MT.net> <Pine.SCO.3.91.960310135919.16035D-100000@buffnet3.buffnet.net>
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> > > One of my users pointed out that the programs we run on freebsd (pine, > > > tin, trn etc) dont behave as they do under sco in one basic respect. > > > > > > There seems to be in sco a typeahead buffner, and not on the freebsd. > > > > This is a bug in SCO's termio/termios implementation. You aren't > > supposed to be able to type-ahead in raw mode. :( > > I keeping finding 'bugs' in my sco implementation though that I wish I > could introduce to freebsd! :) Oh well. Thank you. If you want type-ahead, modify trn to not use raw mode. Type-ahead was specifically designed out of trn for a purpose. If you like type-ahead, redesign these programs to not use raw mode. Nate
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