ttl and mode

Eric S. Raymond esr at thyrsus.com
Sat Nov 26 22:54:57 UTC 2016


Hal Murray <hmurray at megapathdsl.net>:
> 
> esr at thyrsus.com said:
> > It looks like the baud rate and mode bits (which go into the otherwise
> > unused ttl field, yes, I know that's ugly) ...
> 
> We could fix that.
> 
> I think it's leftover from a long time ago when memory usage was important.

Agreed on both counts.  This is the kind of thing I clean up in background
when I don't have anything pressing to do.
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