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Subject: Re: CTTY, substitute.
Keywords: ctty
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Date: 5 Dec 90 07:49:15 GMT
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In article <1182@ncis.tis.llnl.gov> roott@tis.llnl.gov (Tom Root) writes:
>In ms-dos an internal command called "ctty" redirects "most" console
>activities to a com port (1 or 2).  The problem is that it does NOT send
>ALL output that would go to the screen to the com port (only non-graphic)
>
>I would like to know if anyone knows of a public domain or commercial program
>that will "re-direct" ALL console and keyboard activity to the com (1or2) 
>port
The easiest solution that I can think of is to write your own redirection
program in C, using dup2 to redirect the i/o.  Also, it sounds as though
part of your problem might be that no redirection is being done for
stderror.  











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