Re^2: Unix Type-ahead problem
Jan B. Andersen
d.jba at harald.ruc.dk
Sat May 13 21:48:31 AEST 1989
andy at syma.sussex.ac.uk (Andy Clews) writes:
>You could always do a CTRL R to refresh your command line when the
>prompt finally appears. Although I'm a confirmed UNIX fan, this is one
>of the features that I like in the VMS ennvironment. Now don't let's
>start another UNIX/VMS war :-)
>I guess it's the tty driver that's to blame, rather than the Shell.
I, like several others, actually prefers to see what we're typing. In fact,
a couple of years ago when I was working on a PDP-11 running RT-11 with
Modula 2 on it, I went in and modified the Modula systems tty-driver just
to get that feature. That's the nice thing about having sources :-)
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