Minor formatting bug in stty(1)

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1 total messages Started by David E A Wilson Mon, 11 Jan 1993 05:50

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Author: David E A Wilson
Date: Mon, 11 Jan 1993 05:50

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I am sure I reported this as a bug in SysV.2 about 5 years ago...

The System 5 stty(1) displays control characters as ^ followed by a lowercase
letter (unlike the BSD stty(1) which uses ^ + uppercase letter). This is ok
for ^A..^Z, a bit strange for ^[,^\,^],^^ (which appear as ^{,^|,^},^~) but
disastrous for ^_ which appears as ^ (followed by a DEL character which is
invisible on most terminals). If a NUL were valid it would be displayed as
^` rather than ^@. 

The fix is to add 0x40 rather than 0x60 and under Solaris 2.1 can be patched
easily. This is the output from cmp -l on stty & /usr/bin/stty:
 10692 100 140

This is running SunOS 5.1 Generic sun4c sparc.
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Dept Comp Sci, Uni of Wollongong	david@cs.uow.edu.au

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