Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!cs.utexas.edu!swrinde!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!uakari.primate.wisc.edu!aplcen!wb3ffv!ssg0!petej From: petej@ssg0.pharmacia.com (Peter M. Jansson) Newsgroups: comp.unix.i386 Subject: Re: ISC 2.0.2, How to set baud rate on serial ports? Message-ID: <269@ssg0.pharmacia.com> Date: 29 Aug 90 13:59:15 GMT References: <9008280005.aa24338@PARIS.ICS.UCI.EDU> Reply-To: petej@ssg0 (Peter M. Jansson) Organization: Pharmacia Diagnostics, Columbia, MD Lines: 5 A reasonably safe way to do what you are trying to do is to run both commands in a subshell. It should work in sh and csh. You do something like this: (stty 4800; cat) < /dev/ttyxx > blechen