Re: noecho bug on rlogin from typescript

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From: Nathaniel Borenstein
Date: Wed, 21 Feb 1990 17:27

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Actually, this is a VERY easy bug to reproduce.  In addition to rlogin
or gdb, you also get this behavior all the time if your shell is the
Korn shell!  Basically, I think it happens to anything that opens the
terminal in raw mode.  Very icky, indeed.  I hadn't reported the bug
because I was so used to it I took it for granted, but it is so bad that
I have not recommended typescript to any one at Bellcore; my standard
line is "if you're happy with xterm, stick with it."  Of course, most
people here use the Korn shell, so this is reasonable advice.

I suspect this will be a VERY hard bug to fix, knowing a little about
how typescript works, but it is certainly a major bug.

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From: nsb@THUMPER.BELLCORE.COM (Nathaniel Borenstein)
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Subject: Re: noecho bug on rlogin from typescript
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