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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>
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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>.
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