Cut-and-Paste in AT in Speakup?

[pj at pjb.com.au]

William F. Acker wrote:
> The second is a program that doesn't know what to do with the
> arrow keys.  Bash, Vim, Alpine, Mutt are all fine. Cat and ED
> are not. Why this is so is a mystery.

I have a theory; bash, vim, alpine, mutt, slrn read /dev/tty,
but cat and ed read their stdin.

> A way around this is to ssh to localhost.

Excellent hack, well spotted.

Regards,  Peter Billam

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