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From: hedrick@athos.rutgers.edu (Charles Hedrick)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.wizards
Subject: Re: how to check port settings on a Sun
Keywords: stty; /dev/ttya;
Message-ID: <May.24.18.34.44.1991.16355@athos.rutgers.edu>
Date: 24 May 91 22:34:45 GMT
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>The BSD stty (which you will run by default - it's in /bin) will not change
>or check the settings of anything other then the tty you are executing it
>from.

huh?  Some experiments with SunOS 4.1.1 show that the BSD stty will
manipulate other tty's if you use >/dev/ttyNN (it prints on stderr),
whereas Sys5 stty will do so if you use </dev/ttyNN.  This is the
traditional difference between BSD and Sys5 stty.