does rlogin preserve stty settings between BSD and System V?

[Robert Reed]

> Is it reasonable to expect rlogin to pass your stty settings along to
> a remote host when that host runs a different version of Unix? I am
> thinking in particular of rlogin between BSD and System V. If I have
> stty crt on a local BSD machine, I would like stty echoe on the remote
> System V machine, but it seems perhaps too much to expect.
> 
>  Phil Ngai +1 408 749-5720
>  UUCP: {ucbvax,decwrl,ihnp4,allegra}!amdcad!phil
>  ARPA: amdcad!phil at decwrl.dec.com

rlogin should have to pass your stty settings along.  It should only have to
do an stty raw on the local host and pass some environment stuff like $TERM
on to the remote host.  Given that the local host is a nearly transparent
filter (excepting ~ escapes), the login process on the remote host should
handle any special stty needs, etc.

We had a problem locally with rlogin NEARLY setting the local terminal
driver to raw--except for ^S/^Q flagging.  The result was that rlogged-in
users who attempted editing with Emacs found that the typical bindings for
these keys were nonfunctional.  The fix was to make the local driver truly
transparent.
-- 
Robert Reed, CAE Systems Division, tektronix!teklds!bobr