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From: lew@gsg.UUCP (Paul Lew)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions
Subject: Re: get terminal speed from shell script
Message-ID: <799@gsg.UUCP>
Date: 16 Aug 90 00:43:03 GMT
References: <90Aug12.135618edt.18763@me.utoronto.ca> <2857@wyse.wyse.com>
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bob@wyse.wyse.com (Bob McGowen x4312 dept208) writes:

>In article <90Aug12.135618edt.18763@me.utoronto.ca> sun@hammer.me.UUCP (Andy Sun Anu-guest) writes:
>  >Is there a way to get the terminal speed from a (sh or csh) script?

>Of course, this is the Bourne shell, not csh.  I cannot vouch for how or if
>this is possible with csh.

Try:	set speed = `(stty speed > /dev/tty) |& cat`

Layers of I/O redirections usually can solve these kind of problems.
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