epoch 4.2 ascii emacs, Solaris 2.0, and DEL key

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From: t e bennett
Date: Mon, 31 Aug 1992 17:09

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Solaris 2.0 SVR4
epoch 4.2 ascii emacs never sees the DEL key.
Following patch fixes the problem, where VSWTCH was being
improperly disabled for POSIX systems.  
CAVEAT: Since I don't use shl, I don't know if this breaks shl stuff


{/.../src/epoch-4.2/ascii}. diff -c sysdep.c~ sysdep.c
*** sysdep.c~   Mon Aug 31 09:52:57 1992
--- sysdep.c    Mon Aug 31 12:52:13 1992
***************
*** 979,985 ****
--- 979,989 ----
        tty.c_cc[VMIN] = 1;     /* Input should wait for at least 1 char */
        tty.c_cc[VTIME] = 0;    /* no matter how long that takes.  */
  #ifdef VSWTCH
+ #ifdef _POSIX_VDISABLE
+       tty.c_cc[VSWTCH] = _POSIX_VDISABLE; /* Turn off shell layering use of C-z */
+ #else
        tty.c_cc[VSWTCH] = CDEL;        /* Turn off shell layering use of C-z */
+ #endif
  #endif /* VSWTCH */
  #if defined (mips) || defined (HAVE_TCATTR)
        /* The following code looks like the right thing in general,
--
--tbennett     tony.bennett@East.Sun.COM   mailstop: RTP-NC

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Subject: epoch 4.2 ascii emacs, Solaris 2.0, and DEL key
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