From: will.senn@gmail.com (Will Senn)
Subject: stty erase '^?' in v7
Date: Fri, 13 Oct 2017 23:48:08 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <35f1bf13-3466-9836-7665-099f4d5c3576@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20171014042517.3938A18C09E@mercury.lcs.mit.edu>
On 10/13/17 11:25 PM, Noel Chiappa wrote:
> > From: Will Senn
>
> > 1. How do you escape # in order to write a C program if # is the erase
> > character in the terminal?
>
> "Use the source, Luke!" V7 is simple enough that it's pretty quick to find
> the answers to things like this. E.g.
>
> http://minnie.tuhs.org/cgi-bin/utree.pl?file=V7/usr/sys/dev/tty.c>
>
> will answer this question (in "canon()").
Duh! I see it now... backslash. All that cooked and raw stuff is
gobbledegook that I'll have to read up on.
> > 3. Is there a way to echo the ascii value of a keypress in v7?
>
> A quick look through tty.c suggests this doesn't exist in V7 - without running
> a user program that puts the TTY in 'raw' mode and prints out what it
> sees. Not sure if there is one off the rack, or if you'd have to whip up a
> 20-line program to do it.
>
> Noel
Maybe later :).
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Thread overview: 15+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2017-10-14 4:25 Noel Chiappa
2017-10-14 4:48 ` Will Senn [this message]
2017-10-14 6:31 ` Dave Horsfall
2017-10-14 14:03 ` Will Senn
2017-10-14 22:01 ` Dave Horsfall
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2017-10-15 14:39 Noel Chiappa
2017-10-14 12:52 Noel Chiappa
2017-10-14 14:40 ` Clem Cole
2017-10-14 14:44 ` Ronald Natalie
2017-10-15 13:10 ` Don Hopkins
2017-10-14 2:59 Will Senn
2017-10-14 4:08 ` Grant Taylor
2017-10-14 4:39 ` Random832
2017-10-14 5:03 ` Will Senn
2017-10-16 14:46 ` Random832
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