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From: stripes@eng.umd.edu (Joshua Osborne)
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Subject: Re: Stupid man pages
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Date: 4 May 90 08:54:20 GMT
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In article <1990Apr30.144542.17928@phri.nyu.edu> roy@phri.nyu.edu (Roy Smith) writes:
>	It's also a reasonable way to generate a steady stream of characters
>out a serial port (yes > /dev/tty?) so you can look at it with a scope, or
>even over a network (yes | rsh otherhost dd of=/dev/null) so you can
>generate tcpdump fodder.
It also came in handy when I was testing xterm, I didn't want anything fancy
(i.e. no input, no stty'ing), and I didn't want it to exit, because I wanted
to see if it worked at all...
(turns out xterm works - as long as you don't use the csh that comes with
the DS3100, I'm working on that now...)
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