From: muta...@gmail.com   
      
   Another principle.   
      
   The BIOS layer, possibly in the C library, will by   
   default take responsibility for echoing characters   
   from the keyboard and displaying them on the   
   terminal. This is until the OS sets setvbuf   
   no-buffering to indicate it is taking over responsibility.   
      
   Although at this point in time I can't think of any   
   reason why the OS would take over responsibility.   
   I can only see why an application would take that   
   over, and then that request would dutifully be passed   
   back up to the BIOS.   
      
   BFN. Paul.   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
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