From:	jqb AT netcom DOT com (Jim Balter)
Subject:	Re: "info.exe" finally working on W95
13 Mar 1997 22:21:25 -0800 :
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Tony FITZPATRICK wrote:

> I have to admit however that I don't understand the difference between the
> attributes of a "file descriptor", a "console" and a "terminal" and why
> there are two ways to do the same thing, still, nobodys perfect.

O_NDELAY operates on things other than terminals, while VMIN and VTIME
have more detailed effects than O_NDELAY.  And then of course there's
the entire history of unix, in which various overlapping facilities
were added to different dialects which later merged.

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