Decwriters (hard copy terminal behaviour) Jeez you must be bored.
Cliff On Tuesday 09 January 2001 22:31, Joey Hess wrote: > I've been using linux for years and years, but I have never figured > this odd little corner out. Perhaps someone here will know. > > If you type when the kernel is booting up, it echos to the screen. > That's normal for linux of course. The interesting behavior that > puzzles me is that if you hit the backspace key, it pops the letter > that it is backspacing over off of the stack, and prints it. Some / > and \ characters are printed too around what you typed. > > So, if I type: > > Joey he_ > > Then backspace back two spaces, I see: > > Joey he\eh/_ > > Then if I finish up by typing 'Hess', it looks like: > > Joey he\eh/Hess_ > > Finally, if I mash down on backspace to delete it all, I see: > > Joey he\eh/Hess\sseH yeoJ/_ > > Anyone know why this happens? It's a very interesting way to handle > backspacing, to say the least. It doesn't often matter, since there > is little point to type at the kernel while it's booting, unless you > are extremely bored during a long fsck. :-)