Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10 beta 3/9/83; site vaxine.UUCP Path: utzoo!linus!vaxine!ptw From: ptw@vaxine.UUCP (P. Tucker Withington) Newsgroups: net.unix-wizards Subject: Re: raw/cooked single char i/o (CBREAK) Message-ID: <213@vaxine.UUCP> Date: Mon, 13-Jun-83 12:02:50 EDT Article-I.D.: vaxine.213 Posted: Mon Jun 13 12:02:50 1983 Date-Received: Mon, 13-Jun-83 17:07:44 EDT References: <622@rlgvax.UUCP> Organization: Automatix Inc., Billerica, MA Lines: 13 Just a nit, but CBREAK does have *one* effect on output (which could really drive you nuts). The normal tty driver will not let you *send* EOT (it silently ignores it). This is to "avoid hanging up some terminals". The bummer is, that some other "terminals" (e.g., Diablo and emulations) use small numbers for absolute motions and other terminal settings. We ran into this problem when we fine-tuned nroff to really use our Spinwriter. It would "glitch" now and again. The problem was solved by printing in CBREAK mode. --Tucker (ptw@vaxine.UUCP)