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Re: Modem /dev/cua vs /dev/ttyS (The Long, True answer to this reappearing question)



Thanks, that's what I neeeded.  The expect script works great!


On 13 Feb 1998, Carey Evans wrote:

> Steve Hsieh <steveh@eecs.umich.edu> writes:
> 
> > No difference.  Does it work on your modem port?
> > 
> > raindrop:~> stty 115200 echoe -echo -clocal raw < /dev/ttyS0
> > raindrop:~> stty 115200 echoe -echo -clocal raw < /dev/ttyS0
> 
> It won't ever work because the shell tries to open /dev/ttyS0 without
> O_NONBLOCK being one of the flags, and in this case it will wait for
> carrier detect before the open() returns.
> 
> A small program to open the device with O_NONBLOCK and set CLOCAL
> before passing control to the original command could be useful.  I'll
> see if I have some spare time to work on it.
> 
> You could also open the file with NONBLOCK set in expect (see "man
> 3tcl open"):
> 
>     set tty [open /dev/ttyS0 {RDONLY NONBLOCK}]
>     exec stty 115200 -echoe -echo raw <@ $tty
>     close $tty
> 
> -- 
> 	 Carey Evans  http://home.clear.net.nz/pages/c.evans/
> 
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> 
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