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From: shawn@ncrcae.Columbia.NCR.COM (Shawn Shealy)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ncr
Subject: Re: Printer setup on a 32/300
Message-ID: <6423@ncrcae.Columbia.NCR.COM>
Date: 7 Aug 90 13:55:23 GMT
References: <4979@texbell.sbc.com>
Reply-To: shawn@ncrcae.Columbia.NCR.COM (Shawn Shealy)
Organization: NCR Corp., Engineering & Manufacturing - Columbia, SC
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In article <4979@texbell.sbc.com> vernon@ssi600.lonestar.org (Vernon E. Hurdle) writes:
>What you need is a demon process that keeps the port open all the time.
>After this process has been started, the stty parameters that you set
>will stay in effect until the process is stopped.  If you are familiar
>with C, you can write one fairly quickly.

Even a script would suffice.  Something like the following would do:

(
trap "" 1 2
stty <DesiredSettings>
sleep 999999999
) < /dev/tty07 &

Just another idea!  Of course this method breaks down (the
<DesiredSettings> are lost) when the sleep process exits.  :-)

-shawn