From: Pádraig Brady <P@draigBrady.com>
Date: Tue, 23 Dec 2008 11:55:46 +0000 (+0000)
Subject: doc: stty: Clarification of some input and output settings
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doc: stty: Clarification of some input and output settings

* doc/coreutils.texi (stty invocation): Clarify any
ambiguity in regard to the direction of input and output settings.
Add some notes on the case changing settings.
Most of the text was supplied by Dan Jacobson.
---

diff --git a/THANKS b/THANKS
index f74d4fb..d12626c 100644
--- a/THANKS
+++ b/THANKS
@@ -115,7 +115,7 @@ Cyril Bouthors                      cyril@bouthors.org
 Dale Scheetz                        dwarf@polaris.net
 Dameon G. Rogers                    dgr03@uark.edu
 Dan Hagerty                         hag@gnu.ai.it.edu
-Dan Jacobson                        http://www.geocities.com/jidani
+Dan Jacobson                        jidanni@jidanni.org
 Dan Pascu                           dan@services.iiruc.ro
 Daniel Bergstrom                    noa@melody.se
 Daniel Dunbar                       ddunbar@stanford.edu
diff --git a/doc/coreutils.texi b/doc/coreutils.texi
index bbc2710..9047925 100644
--- a/doc/coreutils.texi
+++ b/doc/coreutils.texi
@@ -11916,6 +11916,7 @@ Enable RTS/CTS flow control.  Non-@acronym{POSIX}.  May be negated.
 @subsection Input settings
 
 @cindex input settings
+These settings control operations on data received from the terminal.
 
 @table @samp
 @item ignbrk
@@ -11988,7 +11989,8 @@ empty again.  May be negated.
 @opindex iuclc
 @cindex uppercase, translating to lowercase
 Translate uppercase characters to lowercase.  Non-@acronym{POSIX}.  May be
-negated.
+negated. Note ilcuc is not implemented, as one would not be able to issue
+almost any (lowercase) Unix command, after invoking it.
 
 @item ixany
 @opindex ixany
@@ -12007,7 +12009,7 @@ when the input buffer is full.  Non-@acronym{POSIX}.  May be negated.
 @subsection Output settings
 
 @cindex output settings
-These arguments specify output-related operations.
+These settings control operations on data sent to the terminal.
 
 @table @samp
 @item opost
@@ -12018,7 +12020,7 @@ Postprocess output.  May be negated.
 @opindex olcuc
 @cindex lowercase, translating to output
 Translate lowercase characters to uppercase.  Non-@acronym{POSIX}.  May be
-negated.
+negated. (Note ouclc is not currently implemented.)
 
 @item ocrnl
 @opindex ocrnl
@@ -12271,6 +12273,7 @@ as @code{tab3}.
 @opindex lcase
 @opindex LCASE
 Same as @code{xcase iuclc olcuc}.  Non-@acronym{POSIX}.  May be negated.
+(Used for terminals with uppercase characters only.)
 
 @item crt
 @opindex crt