tty 8-bit output

[Guy Harris]

>There was a bug in the BSD tty handler that made it hard to get 8-bit
>raw data through the handler.

Hard*er*.  The bug to which you're referring (fixed in 4.3BSD) kept even
"litout" from setting the hardware into 8-bits-no-parity mode; however,
even with the bug fixed, there's no way to tell the pre-4.3-reno BSD tty
driver not to strip output characters to 8 bits *before* handing them to
the hardware, unless you turn "raw" or "litout" mode on; I assume the
original poster didn't want to do that.