d.jba@harald.ruc.dk (Jan B. Andersen) (05/13/89)
andy@syma.sussex.ac.uk (Andy Clews) writes: >You could always do a CTRL R to refresh your command line when the >prompt finally appears. Although I'm a confirmed UNIX fan, this is one >of the features that I like in the VMS ennvironment. Now don't let's >start another UNIX/VMS war :-) >I guess it's the tty driver that's to blame, rather than the Shell. I, like several others, actually prefers to see what we're typing. In fact, a couple of years ago when I was working on a PDP-11 running RT-11 with Modula 2 on it, I went in and modified the Modula systems tty-driver just to get that feature. That's the nice thing about having sources :-) -- Jan B. Andersen, Datalogi 19.1 .---------------------------. /^^^\ Roskilde Universitetscenter ( "SIMULA does it with CLASS" ) { o_o } Postbox 260, `---------------------------' <--- \ o / DK-4000 Roskilde (Denmark) IfUmust: +45 46 75 77 11 -mm--mm-