#2 pencil replies
lindy at SU-SHASTA.ARPA
lindy at SU-SHASTA.ARPA
Mon Oct 22 17:07:10 AEST 1984
From: olympus!lindy (John Lindquist) <olympus!lindy at SU-SHASTA.ARPA>
#2 pencil respondents,
Thank you for answering the 2 questions I sent out. Out
of the "billions and billions of ..." [sic] people out
there, I got 10 responses.
At first glance through the replies, It appears that each one
of you who responded have absolutely no common ground. However,
taking a closer look, there is quite a lot of common ground for
the answers to question #1. Answers to question #2 wax and wane
a bit more philosophical.
The general consensus for `What Berkeley tty modes do you use'
seems to be for `new' and `crt'. That gives the following
settings:
use Use the new tty driver.
crt crtbs echo backspaces on erase chars
ctlecho Echo control characters as `^x'.
Print 2 backspaces following the
EOT character.
crterase Wipe out erased characters as
backspace-space-backspace.
crtkill Wipe out input on a line kill ala
crterase.
The general consensus for 'Why have Job Control if you have
windows....' is best represented by the following paragraph:
Windows allow you to change the context you are
working in. Job control allows you to manipulate
the processes in the current context.
Yes, a bit of an over simplification but it is the essence.
However, back to reality, everyone had problems with windows
because they seem to be such a resource drain.
My complements to the winner of the DUMB SHIT reply award:
'F**K ttys!!!!!'
Thanks again,
-lindy
John Lindquist (Silicon Graphics Inc.)
ucbvax!olympus!lindy
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