BSD ioctl question

Chris Torek torek at elf.ee.lbl.gov
Thu Apr 11 14:56:44 AEST 1991


>In article <11914 at dog.ee.lbl.gov> torek at elf.ee.lbl.gov (Chris Torek) writes:
>>If you have [an old] BSD system ... you can fake 8-bit input without
>>disabling output processing by setting LLITIN in the `local mode word',

In article <7114 at auspex.auspex.com> guy at auspex.auspex.com (Guy Harris) writes:
>Setting *what*?  "I see no LLITIN here."  Do you mean "PASS8"?

Oops, right.

(PASS8 appeared in either 4.3 or 4.3-tahoe.  `litout' mode had been around
for quite some time before that, and I always thought of pass8 as `litin'.)
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