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Re: 3.0 PATCH: Enable shared libstdc++ v3 on Tru64 UNIX
On Thu, May 31, 2001 at 02:46:56PM -0700, Richard Henderson wrote:
> > But for that matter, all the implementations
> > of xterm I know of already do logging themselves.
>
> Turned off in many versions, since xterm is traditionally
> setuid to manipulate utmp.
Really? I've never seen it turned off by default before.
> > (who swears by "script". and swears /at/ script too, for using DOS EOLs)
>
> Err, no, script is recording what goes to the tty. Real terminals
> need both CR and NL in order to get to column 0 of row +1. Think
> about it.
Good point. But then, "real" terminals suck. :-) It's the 21st century
and we're still emulating a manual typewriter...
Phil
(had to explain to a freshman what the C in CR actually referred to)
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