> 	The sparc boot program will not let you enter a '@' in the device line
> 	- it just prints a newline.

This sounds an awful lot like line-kill character behavior when set
"stty -crt".  Perhaps the boot program's tty code (or whatever
approximation it has) uses the ooooold default of @ and # for kill and
erase?  If so, I'd say it probably should be changed.

					der Mouse

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