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I have found a possible bug in the new libraries in Slackware 3.0.

Namely, the following program, without WORK_AROUND defined, works
improperly. It should exibit the same behavior irregardless of the
definition of WORK_AROUND, and infact did act this way until I upgraded
to Slackware 3.0:

#include <dirent.h>
#include <sys/wait.h>
#include <stdio.h>
#include <signal.h>
#include <termios.h>

main()
        {
        FILE *tty;
        char ljb;

        if((tty = fopen(ctermid(0),"rb+")) == NULL)
                return -1;

        fprintf(tty,"Hit control-L to exit.\n");

        while(ljb != EOF && ljb != '\f')
                {
                ljb = getc(tty);
#ifndef WORK_AROUND
                fprintf(tty,"%d\n",ljb);
#else
                printf("%d\n",ljb);
#endif
                }

        close(tty);

        }
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Try changing ljb from a char to an int variable.  Two reasons why.  1) getc
returns an int, so that EOF can be distinguished from a binary character 0xff,
and 2) you're printing using an integer format (%d).  It does surprise me that
you get different results between the two though.

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                                J. P. Schoonover