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From: kd@doc.ic.ac.uk (Kostis Dryllerakis)
Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions,comp.os.386bsd.bugs
Subject: [386bsd/PK2.3] stty and pass8 bug
Date: 4 May 1993 11:00:26 GMT
Organization: Imperial College, London, U.K.
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Keywords: stty, cs8, pass8


This problem has insisted on its existance since the first days of 386bsd.
If you want stty to unset the istrip flag and change to cs8 it will do so
happily (stty pass8 will do). But it seems that as soon as a program 
accessing the tty is called (e.g. vi, more, less) the settings revert back 
to cs7 and istrip!

If I remember correctly there used to be a patch on tty_ring.c that would allow
a fix on that problem but it never made the patchkit.

Could someone supply some feedback on that problem?

Kostis

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