Re: Not a typewriter

Blue Lang (blue@gator.net)
Thu, 10 May 2001 21:32:00 -0400 (EDT)


On Thu, 10 May 2001, David S. Miller wrote:

> > Nowhere else in Unix is a "tty" referred to as a "typewriter". "Not a
> > tty" is one thing; "Not a typewriter" is just plain misleading.
>
> If anything it should be "Not a teletype"

fork it and see which code base the users support! ;) (would support the
one that doesn't mention !#@$%#$ typewriters. that irritated me for months
when i used DYNIX and my terms never worked properly.)

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