Subject: Re: using cat on binary files (CTRL-Z trauma)
From: [email-masked] ("Shane Kerr")

1 Nov 1996 06:07:35 -0800
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> 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.
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Shani Kerr                  For my PGP key, finger [email-masked]
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