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From: david@uhccux.uhcc.hawaii.edu (David Lassner)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions
Subject: Reading long lines from TTY
Message-ID: <3134@uhccux.uhcc.hawaii.edu>
Date: 3 Feb 89 03:26:29 GMT
Organization: University of Hawaii
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Any suggestions on using standard utilities to read VERY
long lines from the TTY using Unix (Ultrix 2.2).  The
intuitive:
	%cat > filename
and
	%cp /dev/ttyxx filename
both stop accepting characters after about 250 without a CR.

Our user basically wants to do the equivalent of a TOPS-20
	@copy tty: filename
to upload text that does not contain line breaks.  Yes, we
know about Kermit and other protocols, but they can't be
used in this case.

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David Lassner, University of Hawaii Computing Center, 808/948-7351
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