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Article #1161Re: Questions about rewriting the History function.
From: Dan Bernstein
Date: Fri, 02 Nov 1990 19:30
Date: Fri, 02 Nov 1990 19:30
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In article <MEISSNER.90Oct31182112@osf.osf.org> meissner@osf.org (Michael Meissner) writes: > Actually on BSD systems, it is somewhat straight forward. You make > the history function be a pty master, and spawn the shell with the > slave pty as it's /dev/tty. It's now exceedingly straightforward, as the ``pty'' program will handle all the details of pseudo-terminal allocation and management. See pmlined, just posted to alt.sources, for an example of how easy it is to implement a line discipline using pty. Feel free to play with pmlined and add features. ---Dan
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