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Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!news.Hawaii.Edu!ames!agate!howland.reston.ans.net!xlink.net!math.fu-berlin.de!news.th-darmstadt.de!hotb.RoBIN.de!alvman.RoBIN.de!not-for-mail From: ah@alvman.RoBIN.de (Andreas Haakh) Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.development Subject: Re: Need your opinion (TTYDEF 8-bit clean state) Date: 11 Jun 1993 11:19:26 +0200 Lines: 28 Message-ID: <1v9incINN21m@alvman.RoBIN.de> References: <eLshE4iGSD@astral.msk.su> <C86zv6.AMs@sugar.NeoSoft.COM> NNTP-Posting-Host: alvman.robin.de peter@NeoSoft.com (Peter da Silva) writes: >In article <eLshE4iGSD@astral.msk.su> ache@astral.msk.su writes: >> It is strong problem with clean 8-bit environment: >> many programs (stty [sane mode], getty, etc.) will reset >> terminal state to "default" value, but this value is dependent >> on your 7-bit or 8-bit code table. >Other than stty and getty/login (which should interpret "SANE" as >something system or user specific (say, /etc/default-stty or $STTY) >everything should set all modes back the way they found them. That's what programms should do, but there is a lot of stuff out there which just _sets_ 7-bit mode. Programers should consider at least the latin1 character-set. >Not that it DOES, of course, but it should. >-- >Peter da Silva. <peter@sugar.neosoft.com>. > `-_-' Har du kramat din varg idag? > 'U` >"Det er min ledsager, det er ikke drikkepenge." Andreas -- Andreas Haakh \ ah@alvman.RoBIN.de In den Wingerten 21 \ +49 6150 82904 6100 Darmstadt-Wixhausen \____________________________________