Character echo at read time

Guy Harris guy at gorodish.Sun.COM
Fri Sep 9 03:04:42 AEST 1988


> On BSD systems, there is a key (default ^O) that flushes the input
> queue.  It is specified by: ``stty flush <char>''.  Yes, it works if 
> you have typed several lines ahead.

Oh, no, it doesn't!  ^O flushes *output*, not *input*, on a vanilla BSD system.
(Yes, I tried it.  It flushes output, not input.)



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