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diff --git a/libtecla-1.4.1/html/enhance.html b/libtecla-1.4.1/html/enhance.html deleted file mode 100644 index 9f6bb09..0000000 --- a/libtecla-1.4.1/html/enhance.html +++ /dev/null @@ -1,111 +0,0 @@ -<head> -<title>Manual Page</title> -</head> -<body> -<pre> -</pre><h2>NAME</h2><pre> - enhance - A program that adds command-line editing to third - party programs. - -</pre><h2>SYNOPSIS</h2><pre> - enhance command [ argument ... ] - - -</pre><h2>DESCRIPTION</h2><pre> - The enhance program provides enhanced command-line editing - facilities to users of third party applications, to which - one doesn't have any source code. It does this by placing a - pseudo-terminal between the application and the real termi- - nal. It uses the tecla command-line editing library to read - input from the real terminal, then forwards each just com- - pleted input line to the application via the pseudo- - terminal. All output from the application is forwarded back - unchanged to the real terminal. - - Whenever the application stops generating output for more - than a tenth of a second, the enhance program treats the - latest incomplete output line as the prompt, and redisplays - any incompleted input line that the user has typed after it. - Note that the small delay, which is imperceptible to the - user, isn't necessary for correct operation of the program. - It is just an optimization, designed to stop the input line - from being redisplayed so often that it slows down output. - - -</pre><h2>DEFICIENCIES</h2><pre> - The one major problem that hasn't been solved yet, is how to - deal with applications that change whether typed input is - echo'd by their controlling terminal. For example, programs - that ask for a password, such as ftp and telnet, temporarily - tell their controlling terminal not to echo what the user - types. Since this request goes to the application side of - the psuedo terminal, the enhance program has no way of know- - ing that this has happened, and continues to echo typed - input to its controlling terminal, while the user types - their password. - - Furthermore, before executing the host application, the - enhance program initially sets the pseudo terminal to noecho - mode, so that everything that it sends to the program - doesn't get redundantly echoed. If a program that switches - to noecho mode explicitly restores echoing afterwards, - rather than restoring the terminal modes that were previ- - ously in force, then subsequently, every time that you enter - a new input line, a duplicate copy will be displayed on the - next line. - - -</pre><h2>FILES</h2><pre> - libtecla.a - The tecla library. - ~/.teclarc - The tecla personal customization file. - - -</pre><h2>SEE ALSO</h2><pre> - <a href="libtecla.html">libtecla(3)</a> - - -</pre><h2>AUTHOR</h2><pre> - Martin Shepherd (mcs@astro.caltech.edu) - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -</pre> -</body> |