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Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.development Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!news.Hawaii.Edu!ames!sun-barr!lll-winken.llnl.gov!fastrac.llnl.gov!wsrcc.com!hack.dragoman.com!wetware!spunky.RedBrick.COM!psinntp!psinntp!uuneo!sugar!peter From: peter@NeoSoft.com (Peter da Silva) Subject: Re: Need your opinion (TTYDEF 8-bit clean state) Organization: NeoSoft Communications Services -- (713) 684-5900 Date: Tue, 15 Jun 1993 10:53:49 GMT Message-ID: <C8nsxq.9rt@sugar.NeoSoft.COM> References: <JKH.93Jun12170918@whisker.lotus.ie> <C8KBqG.9oD@sugar.NeoSoft.COM> <1993Jun15.051625.29309@Sandelman.OCUnix.on.ca> Lines: 20 In article <1993Jun15.051625.29309@Sandelman.OCUnix.on.ca> mcr@Sandelman.OCUnix.on.ca (Michael Richardson) writes: > a) make the CSIZE and PARENB/PARODD bits in control mode a no-op, > default is CS8 > b) do a console printf() if an application tries to set other than > CS8. (This way we can *find* those bloody applications that mess up) > c) provide a `magic' option to stty that really sets CS7 (if you > really, really need it) > d) make all of this configurable on a per-port basis from the kernel > config file. I really really want to have to change Kermit and any other program that expects to be able to set this stuff. And do it every time a new release of the program comes out. Not. Fixing the applications can be done once. -- Peter da Silva. <peter@sugar.neosoft.com>. `-_-' Hefur pu fadmad ulfinn i dag? 'U` "Det er min ledsager, det er ikke drikkepenge."