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- Submitted-by: peter@ficc.ferranti.com (Peter da Silva)
-
- In article <1991Dec2.213327.6156@uunet.uu.net> jfh@rpp386.cactus.org (John F Haugh II) writes:
- > I did read it again - and the question remains, what if I do (for some
- > God awful reason) specify ISTRIP to my terminal handler? In an
- > environment where that can't POSSIBLY be a useful action, how should
- > the system react?
-
- By screwing you over... just as it would if you type "stty 19200" when you're
- connected via a 2400 baud modem.
-
- > My claim (read this real carefully) is that the USER is being given a
- > means of shooting themselves in the foot which serves no useful
- > purpose.
-
- Oh no? No user is ever going to connect an obsolete terminal to a serial port
- on any installations of your fancy new computer anywhere in the world? You're
- never going to use a public data service to dial it up? Lucky you.
-
- > For a system which requires 8-bit data, ISTRIP is never
- > an "often-useful feature".
-
- When you're dialed up through a 7-bit data path with some unknown and
- unpredicted parity setting it's nice to still be able to login.
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