8 bit characters sent to printer

K P Donnelly yfcw14 at castle.ed.ac.uk
Wed Nov 14 20:57:14 AEST 1990


On the Sequent machine here, which runs Dynix (Sequent's version of
Unix), what you do to avoid getting the 8th bit stripped on terminal
output is either
            stty -odd
      or    stty -even

I have no idea why, but it works.

   Kevin Donnelly



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