I fixed my emacs meta key problem (Bug in Ultrix 4.1?)

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From: Doug Rudoff
Date: Wed, 26 Jun 1991 18:54

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The problem was that with emacs on Ultrix 4.1, the meta key was being
ignored (basically the 8th bit of input was stripped).

After much testing, I determined that if the ioctl() flag LLITOUT is
set, the 8th bit is stripped from input.

I built emacs version 18.57

To fix the problem in sysdep.c add at line 119 (after the same thing
is done for BSD4_1):

/* Get rid of LLITOUT in Ultrix 4.1, since it is strips meta bits */
#ifdef ultrix
#undef LLITOUT
#define LLITOUT 0
#endif /* ultrix */

This I imagine is a bug in Ultrix 4.1 since emacs worked fine in the
3.x versions of Ultrix.

I'm not sure what the consequences of getting rid of LLITOUT are (I'm
not quite sure what LLITOUT is for!). I just learned all this ioctl()
stuff in the past few days.

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