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Aucbvax.5909 fa.info-vax utcsrgv!utzoo!decvax!ucbvax!info-vax Fri Jan 22 09:32:12 1982 Re: UNIX vs. VMS >From gwyn@UTEXAS-11 Fri Jan 22 09:29:09 1982 I agree that terminal handlers should have features selectable by the user. Some of them do not need to be in a terminal driver, however. Others should be since some of us like to let a front-end handle getting "cooked" lines of input, echoing, etc.

I believe that use of ASCII ESC other than as part of an escape sequence violates the ANSI terminal standards. Similarly, use of DC1,2,3,4 violates DEC internal standards (in practice, many terminals need to preempt DC1,3 for synchronization, regardless of what the user would wish). -------

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