From: utzoo!decvax!pur-ee!uiucdcs!uicsovax!pat Newsgroups: net.unix-wizards Title: Re: getty.c - (nf) Article-I.D.: uiucdcs.736 Posted: Mon Sep 20 11:47:37 1982 Received: Tue Sep 21 08:05:33 1982 #R:sri-unix:-327500:uicsovax:5500026:000:287 uicsovax!pat Sep 18 09:32:00 1982 We have found that the sleep/flush is needed to get rid of the garbage that gets reflected from long unterminated tty lines (lines with terminal disconnected for repair or switched to differrent machine). That sleep(1) could probably be replaced by the "nap" system call. Pat Kane