Annotation of researchv10dc/dist/man/v3/man4/kl.4, revision 1.1.1.1

1.1       root        1: .pa 1
                      2: .he 'KL (IV)'3/15/72'KL (IV)'
                      3: .ti 0
                      4: NAME           kl -- KL-11/TTY-33 console typewriter
                      5: .sp
                      6: .ti 0
                      7: DESCRIPTION    tty___
                      8: (as distinct from tty?____)
                      9: refers to the console
                     10: typewriter hard-wired to the PDP-11 via a KL-11 interface.
                     11: 
                     12: Generally, the disciplines involved in dealing with tty___
                     13: are similar to those for tty?____ and section
                     14: dc(IV) should be consulted.
                     15: The following differences are salient:
                     16: 
                     17: The system calls stty____ and gtty____ do not apply to this
                     18: device.
                     19: It cannot be placed in raw mode; on input, upper case letters
                     20: are always mapped into lower case letters;
                     21: a carriage return is echoed when a line-feed is typed.
                     22: 
                     23: The quit character is not FS (as with tty?____) but
                     24: is generated by the key labelled "alt mode."
                     25: 
                     26: By appropriate
                     27: console switch settings, it is possible to cause
                     28: UNIX to
                     29: come up as a single-user system
                     30: with I/O on this device.
                     31: .sp
                     32: .ti 0
                     33: FILES          /dev/tty
                     34: .br
                     35: /dev/tty8      synonym for /dev/tty
                     36: .sp
                     37: .ti 0
                     38: SEE ALSO       dc(IV), init(VII)
                     39: .sp
                     40: .ti 0
                     41: BUGS           --

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