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</PRE><H2><a name="h2-HISTORY">HISTORY</a></H2><PRE>
- A <STRONG>reset</STRONG> command appeared in 2BSD (1979), written by Kurt
- Shoens.
+ A <STRONG>reset</STRONG> command appeared in 2BSD (April 1979), written by
+ Kurt Shoens. This program set the <EM>erase</EM> and <EM>kill</EM> charac-
+ ters to <STRONG>^H</STRONG> (backspace) and <STRONG>@</STRONG> respectively. Mark Horton
+ improved that in 3BSD (October 1979), adding <EM>intr</EM>, <EM>quit</EM>,
+ <EM>start</EM>/<EM>stop</EM> and <EM>eof</EM> characters as well as changing the pro-
+ gram to avoid modifying any user settings.
+
+ Later in 4.1BSD (December 1980), Mark Horton added a call
+ to the <STRONG>tset</STRONG> program using the <STRONG>-I</STRONG> and <STRONG>-Q</STRONG> options, i.e.,
+ using that to improve the terminal modes. With those
+ options, that version of <STRONG>reset</STRONG> did not use the termcap
+ database.
A separate <STRONG>tset</STRONG> command was provided in 2BSD by Eric All-
man. While the oldest published source (from 1979) pro-
- vides both programs, Allman's comments in the 2BSD source
- code indicate that he began work in October 1977, continu-
- ing development over the next few years.
+ vides both <STRONG>tset</STRONG> and <STRONG>reset</STRONG>, Allman's comments in the 2BSD
+ source code indicate that he began work in October 1977,
+ continuing development over the next few years.
- In September 1980, Eric Allman modified <STRONG>tset</STRONG> to provide a
- "reset" feature when the program was invoked as <STRONG>reset</STRONG>.
- This version appeared in 4.1cBSD, late in 1982.
+ In September 1980, Eric Allman modified <STRONG>tset</STRONG>, adding the
+ code from the existing "reset" feature when <STRONG>tset</STRONG> was
+ invoked as <STRONG>reset</STRONG>. Rather than simply copying the existing
+ program, in this merged version, <STRONG>tset</STRONG> used the termcap
+ database to do additional (re)initialization of the termi-
+ nal. This version appeared in 4.1cBSD, late in 1982.
+
+ Other developers (e.g., Keith Bostic and Jim Bloom) con-
+ tinued to modify <STRONG>tset</STRONG> until 4.4BSD was released in 1993.
The <STRONG>ncurses</STRONG> implementation was lightly adapted from the
4.4BSD sources for a terminfo environment by Eric S. Ray-
<STRONG>csh(1)</STRONG>, <STRONG>sh(1)</STRONG>, <STRONG>stty(1)</STRONG>, <STRONG><A HREF="curs_terminfo.3x.html">curs_terminfo(3x)</A></STRONG>, <STRONG>tty(4)</STRONG>,
<STRONG><A HREF="terminfo.5.html">terminfo(5)</A></STRONG>, <STRONG>ttys(5)</STRONG>, <STRONG>environ(7)</STRONG>
- This describes <STRONG>ncurses</STRONG> version 6.0 (patch 20170107).
+ This describes <STRONG>ncurses</STRONG> version 6.0 (patch 20170422).
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