EPORTS & TB+
Stephen J. Friedl
friedl at mtndew.UUCP
Tue Jul 31 00:52:04 AEST 1990
Greg A. Woods writes:
>
> You can't
> even set HFC with an stty, rather you have to use epstty. It was a
> really brain-dead, stupid thing to do, especially after almost every
> other vendor had used (usually the same) un-used bits in a termio flag
> to do the same.
The reason for this is that they wanted to keep the UNIX porting
base free from port-specific code. Note that there are not that
many unused bits in the termio flag, and this is not the best way
to do it anyway.
I don't like the epstty approach either, but it's not "brain dead".
Steve
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