[buug] `stty 0`

[Ian Zimmerman]

Mark> I got a login fortune that says "Try stty 0 -- it works much
Mark> better."  I figure this is some kind of prank, but all it says
Mark> is "unable to perform all requested operations."  Does anyone
Mark> recall what the joke was?  Just curious. 

On pre-termios systems it probably turned all the terminal modes off.
Including echo, nl->cr translation, and a few others that are somewhat
helpful.  However, on my machine "man stty" says:

>> stty [-F DEVICE] [--file=DEVICE] [SETTING]...

>> The underlying system defines which settings are available.

So in any case the joke is not portable :)

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