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Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.development Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!uunet!mcsun!sunic!ugle.unit.no!trane.uninett.no!alf.uib.no!usenet From: bav@bergen.siodata.no (Bjorn Asle Valde) Subject: 7bit unclean considered harmfull (was: Re: Need your opinion (TTYDEF ))8-bit clean state) Message-ID: <1993Jun14.081754.18248@alf.uib.no> Sender: usenet@alf.uib.no (Bergen University Newsaccount) Reply-To: Bjorn_Asle.Valde@bergen.siodata.no Organization: University of Bergen, Norway References: <C8HpJK.71H@sugar.NeoSoft.COM> Date: Mon, 14 Jun 93 08:17:54 GMT Lines: 32 In article <C8HpJK.71H@sugar.NeoSoft.COM> peter@NeoSoft.com (Peter da Silva) writes: > In article <1valpq$i3i@sax.sax.de> joerg@sax.sax.de (Joerg Wunsch) writes: > > regarding the new termios interface. Btw., does you American folks > > *really* need 7-bit mode? Even the simplest uucp connection requires > > an 8-bit clean interface... > > Not as a default, no. We do need it to be possible, for talking to older > devices that actually require 7 bits with parity for technical or political > reasons. Huh...? For political reasons, IMHO, *all* and every driver/prog in any usable un*x like system should be 8bit-clean. If that's a problem, dump the device or rewrite the program that gives you a hard time. All now: it's 1993, 8-bit clean is the minimum requirement. (At least in principle, I'm not to rewrite all the old stuff, but as a matter of policy: yes!) > -- > Peter da Silva. <peter@sugar.neosoft.com>. > `-_-' Har du kramat din varg idag? > 'U` > "Det er min ledsager, det er ikke drikkepenge." "Det er mine drikkepenger, ikke min ledsager!" Cheers, -bav -- Bjorn Asle Valde - SiO Data Bergen, Christiesgt.13, N-5015 Bergen, Norway. Email: valde@bergen.siodata.no Phones: +47-5-320240 Fax: +47-5-320238