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From: mouse@thunder.mcrcim.mcgill.edu (der Mouse)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.wizards
Subject: Re: how to check port settings on a Sun
Keywords: stty; /dev/ttya;
Message-ID: <1991May29.072411.10954@thunder.mcrcim.mcgill.edu>
Date: 29 May 91 07:24:11 GMT
Article-I.D.: thunder.1991May29.072411.10954
References: <837@hartmanis.albany.edu> <1991May23.191124.359@st-andy.uucp>
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In article <1991May23.191124.359@st-andy.uucp>, larry@st-andy.uucp (Larry Martell) writes:
> In article <837@hartmanis.albany.edu> kevind@cs.albany.edu (Kevin M. Dombroski) writes:
>> How do I change/check the port settings on a Sun 3/50?  [...]
> 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.

Then it's not a real BSD stty; Sun must have broken it.  Real Berkeley
stty ("@(#)stty.c      5.4 (Berkeley) 4/4/86") does most of its ioctls
to file descriptor 1, meaning it will print/change the settings of its
stdout.  (Exceptions: "stty size" and "stty speed" explicitly use
/dev/tty for some inscrutiable reason.)

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