On Thursday 24 April 2008 21:52, Shane Volpe wrote:
> I have noticed that if you exceed 64 characters on a serial login
> using getty that when you go to backspace and hit the 64 character
> mark that the cursor automatically jumps up one line.  Why is this?

I'm sorry, what exactly happens?
What does it mean, "when you go to backspace"?

> If you have a long command and want to modify something on it, it
> becomes pretty hard when you backspace beyond the 64'th character
> since your cursor is one line above the text you are trying to edit.

I tried to reproduce this and failed.

I'm also curious what commands do you enter in getty. IIRC
getty asks for username, not commands.
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vda
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