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From: gwyn@brl-smoke.ARPA (Doug Gwyn )
Newsgroups: comp.sources.d,comp.emacs
Subject: Re: 9600 baud problems (was Re: when using termcap, get it right!)
Message-ID: <6042@brl-smoke.ARPA>
Date: Tue, 30-Jun-87 12:45:47 EDT
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Posted: Tue Jun 30 12:45:47 1987
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Reply-To: gwyn@brl.arpa (Doug Gwyn (VLD/VMB) )
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In article <931@argus.UUCP> ken@argus.UUCP (Kenneth Ng) writes (re. DEL character):
>Unfortunately some VT100 styled machines
>took it to mean 'delete character'.

? The DEC VT100 ignores received ASCI DEL characters.

I take this opportunity to point out that it is INCORRECT to transmit padding
characters to a terminal if the termcap/terminfo entry does not indicate that
padding is needed and supported.  In particular an ASCII NUL character is not
always ignored by all terminals (I have mine set up to display it, so I can
spot bugs in programs that output erroneous characters).