Re: terminal driver hacks

[Ernie Perez <ernie_perez@email.msn.com>]

I remember what it did!

I deleted your type-ahead buffer!

Ernie

-----Original Message-----
From: Rich Thomson <rthomson@ptc.com>
To: deltoids@mcws.net <deltoids@mcws.net>
Date: Thursday, April 30, 1998 4:11 PM
Subject: terminal driver hacks


>Does anyone have a canonical list of terminal driver hacks that
>originated at DELTA?  The "history" mentions ^V, but we can't seem
>to remember what it did. :)  I recall that ^V was a local hack, but
>I can't exactly remember its function... was it some sort of foreground/
>background job control?  I remember Ed Jones telling me about unix
>job control (^Z, ^Y), and I have a vague memory of trying out unix job
>control and thinking I liked DELTA's job control better.
>--
>     Rich Thomson
>     rthomson@ptc.com
>