Yet more questions/problems with Interactive UNIX
Larry Williamson
larry at focsys.uucp
Sat Jul 28 02:40:57 AEST 1990
> > > 3) Is there tty driver that knows not to allow you to backspace past the
> >
> >Yes, the S5R4 one knows not to backspace past the prompt. Dunno if
> >anything like that is available for S5R3 on the 386....
>
> Funny, I read my news on a 286 running Venix/286 (SVR2), and the tty
> driver in this OS won't backspace over the prompt. I guess I never
> noticed that SVR3 didn't have this feature.
sh and csh are stupid, ksh does the right thing.
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