Character echo at read time

Pete Alleman pja at ralph.UUCP
Sat Sep 17 12:34:56 AEST 1988


In article <8458 at smoke.ARPA> gwyn at brl.arpa (Doug Gwyn (VLD/VMB) <gwyn>) writes:
>In article <1059 at nmtsun.nmt.edu> warner at hydrovax.nmt.edu (M. Warner Losh) writes:
>>With VMS you can do a ^X anytime the terminal is
>>not in "raw" mode and clear the current type ahead buffer.  How does one

>I don't know of any UNIX implementation that provides such a feature,
>although it is doable and I've often wished I had it (its utility is

Venix/11 from VenturCom has this feature (^E flushes the input
buffer). It's nice to have, but I don't really miss it that much
when I use other versions of unix.  

I guess one need not flush the entire buffer very often when he
can see what he is typing :->

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Pete Alleman
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