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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
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References: <eLshE4iGSD@astral.msk.su> <C86zv6.AMs@sugar.NeoSoft.COM>
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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
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