From:	streepy AT healthcare DOT com ("Larry V. Streepy, Jr.")
Subject:	Re: using cat on binary files (CTRL-Z trauma)
1 Nov 1996 10:31:34 -0800 :
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Shane Kerr wrote:
> 
> > The return key on dumb terminals always generates CR, not LF; no one
> > ever turns off just icrnl, it was added in the SysIII version of
> > termio for completeness.  Even in DOS the enter key has to be
> 
> I don't know about dumb terminals, but I have been on some
> X-terminals, admittedly too smart for their own damn good, who gave
> ^J when the enter key was pressed, rather than ^M.  Of course, those
> X-terms were evil - they didn't have escape keys!  ^[ is _not_ an
> acceptable way to press escape.

Could we *try* to stay a little closer to the focus of this mailing
list.  The flow on this list is already extremely heavy.  Adding way
out-of-band crap doesn't help.

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Larry V. Streepy, Jr.
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