Date: Mon, 5 Apr 1999 08:04:53 +0200 (IST)
From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz AT is DOT elta DOT co DOT il>
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On Sun, 4 Apr 1999, Mark E. wrote:

> > How different is the version in the Bash distribution?
> 
> The differences appear to be quite large I'm afraid:

I suggest you leave this in the Bash distribution and only use it to 
build Bash.  I'm not even sure we should be adding these features to the 
library if Daisuke Aoyama *was* available.

(FWIW, I think that using BIOS for termios was a design error: it should
have used `read' or `getch'.  BIOS is only justified if you need to
distinguish between left and right Alt keys, or between Grey HOME and the
one on the numeric keypad: these features won't be missed in Bash. 
Otherwise, using BIOS is a terrible mess, because you then need to know
about different national keyboards which map certain keys differently.  It
also leads to duplication of code, to handle the case of redirected
streams.)