Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Path: utzoo!utgpu!water!watnot!watmath!clyde!rutgers!ames!ucbcad!ucbvax!LLL-ICDC.ARPA!oberman From: oberman@LLL-ICDC.ARPA.UUCP Newsgroups: mod.computers.vax Subject: RE: terminal baud rate Message-ID: <8704110726.AA04937@ucbvax.Berkeley.EDU> Date: Fri, 10-Apr-87 16:24:00 EST Article-I.D.: ucbvax.8704110726.AA04937 Posted: Fri Apr 10 16:24:00 1987 Date-Received: Sun, 12-Apr-87 00:40:15 EST Sender: daemon@ucbvax.BERKELEY.EDU Reply-To: "Oberman, Kevin" Distribution: world Organization: The ARPA Internet Lines: 20 Approved: info-vax@sri-kl.arpa >A program with SHARE privilege can assign a channel to the terminal even if >someone else is using it. That's how SHOW TERM is able to get information >about terminals that are in use. >It's interesting that SHOW TERM does NOT display to baud rate for other ter- >minals, although it displays everything else. As far as I know - I've never >tried this - the speed information is returned, it's just that SHOW TERM >chooses not to display it. It's not that SHOW TERM doesn't choose to dispaly to display it. It's that it does not have the priv. needed to get the speed. SHOW TERM does show the spped of another terminal unless the process has SHARE. If the prcess has SHARE SHOW TERM returns the same information for another terminal as it does for your own. R. Kevin Oberman Lawrence Livermore Nat'l Laboratory arpa: oberman@lll-icdc.arpa (415) 422-6955 ------