Subject: Re: bin/5804: ftp has annoying word kill habits
To: Eric S. Hvozda <hvozda@ack.org>
From: der Mouse <mouse@Rodents.Montreal.QC.CA>
List: netbsd-bugs
Date: 07/20/1998 08:26:49
> >Synopsis: ftp does the "wrong" thing with word kill
It's worse than that - it does the wrong thing with EOF, too. Try
setting your eofc to something other than ^D - you'll find that ^D is
EOF on the FTP command line and your eofc is ignored.
I submitted PR 3982 on the eofc subject. It was closed by perry:
State-Changed-From-To: open-closed
State-Changed-By: perry
State-Changed-When: Wed Aug 13 08:38:57 PDT 1997
State-Changed-Why:
Fixed in -current for weeks and.
weeks.
Yet when I checked in -current a few weeks after that, I found it still
misbehaved as described in the PR. I've never tried to re-open or
re-submit it; if Perry thinks the current behavior isn't broken, it's
unlikely to be changed, regardless of how broken I think it is.
Incidentally, as I mentioned in 3982, gdb handles EOF right. I just
now checked, and it handles word-kill right too (though it has an
annoying tendency to beep when word-killing on an empty line).
der Mouse
mouse@rodents.montreal.qc.ca
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