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Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.development Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!uunet!pipex!uknet!mcsun!ieunet!ieunet!dec4ie.ieunet.ie!jkh From: jkh@whisker.lotus.ie (Jordan K. Hubbard) Subject: Re: Need your opinion (TTYDEF 8-bit clean state) In-Reply-To: joerg@sax.sax.de's message of 11 Jun 1993 21: 18:18 +0200 Message-ID: <JKH.93Jun12170918@whisker.lotus.ie> Sender: usenet@ieunet.ie (USENET News System) Nntp-Posting-Host: whisker.lotus.ie Organization: Lotus Development Ireland References: <eLshE4iGSD@astral.msk.su> <C86zv6.AMs@sugar.NeoSoft.COM> <1valpq$i3i@sax.sax.de> Date: Sat, 12 Jun 1993 17:09:18 GMT Lines: 19 >regarding the new termios interface. Btw., does you American folks >*really* need 7-bit mode? Even the simplest uucp connection requires There's another reasons for us Americans to want an 8 bit clesn driver. Ever tried using your meta key in bash? Nice, ain't it? Now try running vi or more and see what happened to your nice meta key. Having to stty cs8 all the time is more pain than it's worth. This kind of behaviour on suns as well has led me to sadly give up on the idea of ever having a meta key outside of emacs, and that's a real shame. I support this - DEC has done much the same with their tty drivers in Ultrix - it comes up in 8 bit, and it stays that way until you decide otherwise. Jordan -- Jordan Hubbard jkh@whisker.lotus.ie