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From: cpcahil@virtech.uucp (Conor P. Cahill)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions
Subject: Re: How could I redirect the output of a tty in a file?
Message-ID: <1990Nov20.023806.17791@virtech.uucp>
Date: 20 Nov 90 02:38:06 GMT
References: <1990Nov19.162132.18379@DMI.USherb.CA>
Reply-To: cpcahil@virtech.UUCP (Conor P. Cahill)
Organization: Virtual Technologies Inc., Sterling VA
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In article <1990Nov19.162132.18379@DMI.USherb.CA> bussiere@ganymede.DMI.USherb.CA (Luc Bussieres) writes:
>
>	I'm trying to redirect the output of a tty line to a file
>using the command "cat /dev/ttyb > pacx.log". This is the logging
>messages that come out our Pacx. The problem is that we are loosing 
>characters. Is there a modification I could make to the ttytab or

If you Pacx supports flow control, you should try to set flow control
on the port that you are reading.   For a BSD system it could be
done as follows:

	(stty tandem; cat) < /dev/ttyb > packx.log

or for SYSV

	(stty ixoff; cat) < /dev/ttyb > packx.log

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