Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!seismo!sundc!pitstop!sun!gorodish!guy From: guy@gorodish.Sun.COM (Guy Harris) Newsgroups: comp.unix.wizards Subject: Re: Input Line Editing Message-ID: <60134@sun.uucp> Date: 15 Jul 88 18:41:42 GMT References: <16456@brl-adm.ARPA> <9666@eddie.MIT.EDU> <59768@sun.uucp> <594@blblbl.UUCP> Sender: news@sun.uucp Lines: 8 > However, they point out the critical failing of the whole thing -- they > require a specific action on the part of the end user -- if they forget > to run the CRTSTY program their terminal is not supported. "Critical"? Nope. That's a minor nit at worst; being obliged to run some special program in your ".profile" sure beats the hell out of stuffing more hard-to-replace (and hard-to-page-out, in many implementations) poop into the kernel.