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From: joe@montebello.uhcc.Hawaii.Edu (Joe Dellinger)
Newsgroups: alt.hackers
Subject: Re: TIOCSTI
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Date: 14 May 91 11:09:30 GMT
References: <1991May13.211622.1452@sbcs.sunysb.edu>
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In article <1991May13.211622.1452@sbcs.sunysb.edu>, god@csserv2.ic.sunysb.edu
(The Lord God your Creator) writes:
|> The TIOCSTI ioctl lets you simulate keyboard input on other peoples terminals
|> while they're logged in as long as you have write perminssion for the tty
|> (mesg y).
	This probably explains why the trick "stty -even > /dev/whatever"
works so well.

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