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From: dns@essnj1.ESSNJAY.COM (David N. Sears)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions
Subject: Re: how to stty another terminal?
Message-ID: <779@essnj1.ESSNJAY.COM>
Date: 8 Dec 90 14:43:42 GMT
References: <1990Dec07.055142.11132@eecs.wsu.edu>
Organization: ESSNJAY Systems Inc., Bethany, CT, USA
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In <1990Dec07.055142.11132@eecs.wsu.edu> rnelson@eecs.wsu.edu (Roger Nelson - Grad Student) writes:

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>How to you stty a terminal line that you are not currently connected to.

>Specifically I have written a small C shell script that prints to a local
>printer connected to a terminal (even if you are not logged in with that
>terminal).  This works fine (NL is mapped to CR LF) as long as someone is
>logged in with the terminal.  When no one is logged in with the terminal, 
>NL is only mapped to LF.

>So what I would like to do is specify the device, something like:

>     stty -d ttyd4 onlcr

Yep -- to do what you want type

stty onlcr </dev/ttyd4

You must use the full path name because the shell has to do the open
for stty.

David Sears
EssnJay Systems, Inc.
Huntington, CT