On Fri, 11 Jun 1999, Colin Wood wrote:

> [Mat_as] Giovannini wrote:
> > > > The "adb0 at obio0"
> > > > line backspaces a little and overwrites the "(mrg)" identifier.
> > > 
> > > that's a long-standing problem that results from a hack in the MRG
> > > support.
> > 
> > I didn't know. I thought it was significative. Doesn't gcc have a
> > #pragma to disable warnings locally?
> 
> hmmm....maybe.  i don't really know.  i guess i'll have to go dig through
> the man pages...

I'm not sure what gcc has to do with this...

The early code had a timing bug with (IIRC) the IIsi's adb.  To make it
work, someone stuck in code to echo a couple of backspaces.  This has
been there _forever_.

In my SLOTMAN code, I've actually made this a bit less intrusive by
changing the first backspace to a space.  So now it prints a space and
then backspaces over the one it just printed, leaving no noticeable
trail!


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