Character echo at read time

[Steve Summit]

In article <8458 at smoke.ARPA> gwyn at brl.arpa (Doug Gwyn (VLD/VMB) <gwyn>) writes:
>In article <1059 at nmtsun.nmt.edu> warner at hydrovax.nmt.edu (M. Warner Losh) writes:
>>With VMS you can do a ^X anytime the terminal is
>>not in "raw" mode and clear the current type ahead buffer.
>I don't know of any UNIX implementation that provides such a feature...

Well, early versions of pdp11 Venix used control-E for this
purpose.  I haven't noticed (or missed) it recently...

                                            Steve Summit