ksbszabo@wateng.UUCP (Kevin Szabo) (03/18/85)
In article <3816@mit-eddie.UUCP> jfw@mit-eddie.UUCP (John Woods) writes: > Surprise! CBREAK is a 'Bell-ism' from Version 7, which endured through >Berkeley systems, but was removed when they came up with the horrid >excrescense of the System III/V tty driver. I don't understand your dislike of the SystemIII tty driver. After having to deal with both BSD4.2 and SystemIII I find I prefer the system III. It took me a while to port from 4.2->sysIII, but with a little help (Thanks Guy!) the systemIII stuff is always cleaner, with a fairly straightforward set of flags set. Admittedly the 4.2 driver is prettier from a user point of view (nice echoing of control chars, tabs etc), but from a programers point of view there are a gizillion (more than 6) sets of flags which almost do what you want but never quite. And there is always one more `local word' or `user word' that has to be filled with 0's or -1's to turn superfluous junk off. Just an opinion...(not a flame, well maybe a little warm...) Kevin -- Kevin Szabo watmath!wateng!ksbszabo (U of Waterloo VLSI Group, Waterloo Ont.)