Type-ahead in unix

[Jon Hamilton]

drake at drake.almaden.ibm.com writes:

>In article <15686 at smoke.brl.mil> gwyn at smoke.brl.mil (Doug Gwyn) writes:
>>UNIX has "always" supported type-ahead.
>>I think what you are discussing is deferred echo.
>>Why would you have to have that?

>I think they are discussing deferred echo, too.  As for why you have to have
>it ... well, it would sure be nice to be able to type the next command
>without ruining the appearance of the output of the current one!

I've been waiting for someone to say this, but nobody has.  tcsh does this just
fine.  No characters get echoed until after the ensuing prompt.  This may not
be true in all tcsh's, though - I've noticed that the tcsh I use under SunOS 
is considerably stupider than the one running under A/UX.


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