Shells, features and interaction

[Daniel R. Levy]

In article <1631 at glacier.ARPA>, conor at glacier.ARPA (Conor Rafferty) writes:
>
>Admittedly this may not work the way I expect because most people on
>alice can probably do blit-hacking on the command line. But on a dumb
>terminal, I'll trade you 60kb for history and command-editing any time.
>I'd even go so far as to put line editing in the tty driver, canonical
>mode. [There goes my reputation...]
>
>conor rafferty == decwrl!glacier!conor == conor at su-glacier.arpa
>

But if you do, make sure you don't repeat DEC's mistake with VMS 4.1 (you
can crash the system by typing the wrong [or right, if you are a hacker :-)]
gibberish at it).  Make it BULLETPROOF.
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