Aucbvax.5451
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Fri Dec 11 20:09:19 1981
CNTL-D on output
Via: Ucb-C70.ArpaNet; 11 Dec 81 19:28-PDT
In-real-life: Steven M. Bellovin
The standard UNIX tty driver will not output control-Ds except in raw
mode; this is to prevent certain terminals from hanging up, giving up
the carrier, becoming an ex-terminal, etc. But we have a beast that
*likes* receiving control-Ds; it thinks they're color-change signals
or some such. And we can't run it in raw mode; we need the XON/XOFF
hand-shaking to slow down UNIX when it's talking too fast. My
question is this: we'd like to take out that feature. What, if any,
popular terminals will take their bits and go home if you dare say
\004 to them? I seem to recall that DECwriter III's can be strapped
that way, but I don't remember what happens if you disable that option.
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