25 Jul
2020
25 Jul
'20
8:45 a.m.
On Fri, Jul 24, 2020, at 13:15, Clem Cole wrote:
On Fri, Jul 24, 2020 at 12:39 PM Random832
<random832(a)fastmail.com> wrote:
my mistake, though that does mean the rest of my point definitely stands: the program will
need to have some other way (either a sequence of characters input or e.g. some amount of
time passing with no input - did v6 have any mechanism like alarm?) to make the program
recognize the end of its input.
You'll have a hard time exiting your program
if you use raw mode -
cbreak should be enough, and in that case ctrl-c will still
work [but
even in cbreak mode I believe there is no way to send "EOF".]
There is no such thing as cbreak in sixth edition.
http://man.cat-v.org/unix-6th/1/stty
It's raw or cooked. Life is more interesting ;-)