According to Christos Zoulas:
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>If you are going to fix the api, then fix all of it:
>

Excellent suggestions, what you have suggested makes a lot of sense.
I will look at doing these calls.  Unfortunately, the old calls will
have to stay for compatiability :-/

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>So that everything is re-entrant does not depend on global variables,
>the interface can be used with more than one terminal at a time, and
>all errors can be caught.
>

I cannot imagine using more than one terminal at a time but that
should not mean we don't support it ;-)

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Brett Lymn, Computer Systems Administrator, British Aerospace Australia
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