Rare mode




<operating system> Unix CBREAK mode (character-by-character with keyboard interrupts enabled).

Distinguished from raw mode and cooked mode; the phrase "a sort of half-cooked (rare?) mode" is used in the V7/BSD manuals to describe the mode.

Usage: rare.

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