mouse@mcgill-vision.UUCP (der Mouse) (09/02/88)
In article <12016@steinmetz.ge.com>, davidsen@steinmetz.ge.com (William E. Davidsen Jr) writes: > one of the few things I like about DOS and VMS is that the characters > are echoed as they are read, not as they are typed. This prevents > display of info designed to be read "no echo." It also prevents display of other typeahead. Which sort do you type more of? I had to get used to echo-ahead when we changed over from VMS to UNIX. I've used it both ways and I prefer the UNIX way. The occasional no-echo read isn't worth losing the ability to read (and therefore edit) what's been typed ahead. > Fortunately there seems to be no reason why this can't be done in a > device driver, even if it's not (I would like to think it is and I > haven't found it). *This* is the *real* difference between UNIX and the rest of the crowd. Just try to change the echo behavior on DOS or VMS! Curious that this isn't a bit somewhere in the so-called "new" line discipline on Berkeley; everything else is, seems like. Should be straightforward to add; perhaps I'll do it someday, if you don't. der Mouse old: mcgill-vision!mouse new: mouse@larry.mcrcim.mcgill.edu