chris@mimsy.UUCP (Chris Torek) (09/09/88)
Obviously, the answer is `whenever the user wants it'. All of Unix, VMS, and MS-DOS are deficient in that respect: they only echo when *they* want to. (If you want it when they want it, that is fine for you, of course.) In article <15410@ism780c.isc.com> mikep@ism780c.isc.com (Michael A. Petonic) writes: >On BSD systems, there is a key (default ^O) that flushes the input >queue. It is specified by: ``stty flush <char>''. ^O flushes *output*, not input. You can flush all typein (including text that spans newlines) by typing ^Z, and then (if necessary) `fg'. This is really just a side effect, but I make use of it occasionally. As far as I know, SysV does not have a way to flush typein that spans newlines (or ^D, or any other form of commit) that does not also send a SIGINT to the current process. -- In-Real-Life: Chris Torek, Univ of MD Comp Sci Dept (+1 301 454 7163) Domain: chris@mimsy.umd.edu Path: uunet!mimsy!chris