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From: gerry@jts.com (Gerry Roderick Singleton )
Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions
Subject: Re: get terminal speed from shell script
Message-ID: <1990Aug20.020510.10277@jts.com>
Date: 20 Aug 90 02:05:10 GMT
References: <1990Aug14.181010.29571@jts.com> <12584@hydra.gatech.EDU>
Organization: JTS Computer Systems Ltd.
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In article <12584@hydra.gatech.EDU> gt0178a@prism.gatech.EDU (BURNS,JIM) writes:
>in article <1990Aug14.181010.29571@jts.com>, gerry@jts.com (Gerry Roderick Singleton ) says:
>> #! /bin/sh
>> 
>> speed=`stty speed </dev/tty 2>&1`
>> echo $speed
>
>Nope, on SunOS 4.0, you get:
>
>{richsun12:/usr}
>[196] t=`stty speed </dev/tty 2>&1`
>{richsun12:/usr}
>[197] echo $t
>stty: Operation not supported on socket
>{richsun12:/usr}
>[198]
>-- 

Yup, you sure do but the following works on SunOS3.5, SunOS 4.0.3x, BSD4.3(isi)
and SPARC 4.1:

#! /bin/sh
speed= eval 'stty speed'
echo $speed


Have fun,
ger
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