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Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!constellation!aardvark.ucs.uoknor.edu!ns1.nodak.edu!netnews.nwnet.net!usenet.coe.montana.edu!caen!uwm.edu! ux1.cso.uiuc.edu!howland.reston.ans.net!darwin.sura.net!udel!news.intercon.com!psinntp!uuneo!sugar!peter Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.development Subject: Re: 7bit unclean considered harmfull (was: Re: Need your opinion (TTYDEF ))8-bit clean state) Message-ID: <C8MHor.H2L@sugar.NeoSoft.COM> From: peter@NeoSoft.com (Peter da Silva) Date: Mon, 14 Jun 1993 17:53:14 GMT References: <C8HpJK.71H@sugar.NeoSoft.COM> <1993Jun14.081754.18248@alf.uib.no> Organization: NeoSoft Communications Services -- (713) 684-5900 Lines: 24 In article <1993Jun14.081754.18248@alf.uib.no> Bjorn_Asle.Valde@bergen.siodata.no writes: > 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? > > 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. I entirely agree. What does that have to do with having 7 (or even 6 & 5) bit modes available for talking to devices that need it? This has nothing to do with being American, it has to do with using computers for more than just hacking around on. -- Peter da Silva. <peter@sugar.neosoft.com>. `-_-' Hefur pu fadmad ulfinn i dag? 'U` "Det er min ledsager, det er ikke drikkepenge."