Re: terminal driver hacks

[Alan Flippen <flippen@nytimes.com>]

At 04:36 PM 4/30/98 EDT, you wrote:
>
>I recall that ^V killed the current contents of the typeahead buffer,
>even if it included a carriage return.
>
>Remember that you could type ahead while output was coming out.  But
>if you hit return, you couldn't undo it with ^U.  ^V wiped the entire
>buffer.
>
>Tom
>
YES!!! Now I remember it. It was such an obvious thing to do. In fact, I
think it was the second hack I ever made to the terminal driver, after the
even more obvious one of changing the "Ready" message ...

Cheers,
Alan