echoing style - DOS,VMS vs. Unix (was: AT&T Joining OSF)

[Steven L. Baur]

in article <1988Sep2.224258.27960 at gpu.utcs.toronto.edu>, woods at gpu.utcs.toronto.edu (Greg Woods) says:
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> In article <397 at nynex1.UUCP> curt at chaos.UUCP (Curtis Villamizar) writes:
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>> I am always annoyed when it backspaces over my prompt and does other stupid
>> things.  This kind of code gets put in the line dicipline once, and can be
>> used with any device driver (including pty's).



This is dependent upon what shell you are using.  If were using ksh,
you would not notice this problem.
Sh  will willing backspace over the prompt even on BSD systems.


steve