Re: Unix equivalent of Dos commands
From: Bill Campbell (bill_at_celestial.com)
Date: 06/25/03
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Date: Wed, 25 Jun 2003 17:29:24 GMT To: Sco Mailing List <scomsc@xenitec.on.ca>
On Wed, Jun 25, 2003 at 10:44:19AM -0600, justin wrote:
>I am trying to send strings of data to a customer display connect to
>/dev/tty2a in Openserver 5.0.5. The use manual explains how to do this in
>dos, but I want to test in out in unix. The manual says to do the following
>dos commands:
>
>mode com1 96,n,8,1
>type con>com1
>
>then type "!#1ABCDEFGH" and press enter. The display will show "ABCDEFGH"
>on the first line. Press Ctrl-C to end.
>
>In dos, I can sit there all day and type in various strings and it works,
>but I don't know how to do this in unix. I believe that I have the settings
>for tty2a set correctly as I can type echo $string > /dev/tty2a and it
>displays. The problem with this testing is that the device has to be reset
>after each line because it needs a cr/lf to end one line and begin accepting
>another.
The ususal answer is ``there's more than one way to do it''. The Unix
``write'' command is traditionally the way this is done.
Writing directly to a user's tty device may work, but probably won't on a
properly configured system since it has many security implications. (how
would you like to be running as root and have your F1 key reprogrammed to
send ``rm -fr /'')?
Things are muth more compilicated in a multi-user environment than on the
average DOS/Windows machine where there's only one user with one console
device. Even if I'm running an *ix box from the console, there are 12
different ttys I might be on so how do you know which one to write to (when
I was running Xenix I used all 12 of them)?
Bill
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