[email protected] wrote: > Well, OK then. > > PB> I think we can imply a computer is involved? > PB> I was worried that the more verbose mentioning of both > PB> the terminal and computer would suggest that stty > PB> was restricted to remote serial terminals.
I'm going to push the attached soon cheers, Pádraig
>From 8a0d51dc9997fa8cbb6eb883979ed9749bddac03 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: =?utf-8?q?P=C3=A1draig=20Brady?= <[email protected]> Date: Tue, 23 Dec 2008 11:55:46 +0000 Subject: [PATCH] doc: stty: Clarification of some input and output settings * doc/coreutils.texi (stty invocation): Clarify any ambiguity in regard to the direction of input and output settings. Add some notes on the case changing settings. Most of the text was supplied by Dan Jacobson <[email protected]> --- doc/coreutils.texi | 8 ++++++-- 1 files changed, 6 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) diff --git a/doc/coreutils.texi b/doc/coreutils.texi index bbc2710..3c3b74a 100644 --- a/doc/coreutils.texi +++ b/doc/coreutils.texi @@ -11916,6 +11916,7 @@ Enable RTS/CTS flow control. n...@acronym{posix}. May be negated. @subsection Input settings @cindex input settings +These settings control operations on data received from the terminal. @table @samp @item ignbrk @@ -11988,7 +11989,8 @@ empty again. May be negated. @opindex iuclc @cindex uppercase, translating to lowercase Translate uppercase characters to lowercase. n...@acronym{posix}. May be -negated. +negated. Note no ilcuc is implemented, as one would not be able to issue +almost any (lowercase) Unix command, after invoking it. @item ixany @opindex ixany @@ -12005,6 +12007,7 @@ when the input buffer is full. n...@acronym{posix}. May be negated. @node Output @subsection Output settings +These settings control operations on data sent to the terminal. @cindex output settings These arguments specify output-related operations. @@ -12018,7 +12021,7 @@ Postprocess output. May be negated. @opindex olcuc @cindex lowercase, translating to output Translate lowercase characters to uppercase. n...@acronym{posix}. May be -negated. +negated. (Note no ouclc is currently implemented.) @item ocrnl @opindex ocrnl @@ -12271,6 +12274,7 @@ as @code{tab3}. @opindex lcase @opindex LCASE Same as @code{xcase iuclc olcuc}. n...@acronym{posix}. May be negated. +(Used for terminals with uppercase characters only.) @item crt @opindex crt -- 1.5.3.6
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