[ale] Wanted: trivial minicom-type function

[Christopher Fowler]

On Mon, 2006-03-13 at 08:55 -0500, Mills, John M. wrote:
> ALErs -
> 
> Before I write it, can anyone suggest a simple (even trivial) way to
> plug 'stdin'/'stdout' to a specified '/dev/tt*' so byte traffic simply
> goes both ways? No smarts required.

In PERL use POSIX::termios to make place the stream in raw mode and then
use select to pass data back and forth.   Need more detail on what you
are actually trying to accomplish.

> 
> Second prize is for a comm utility that doesn't pollute the traffic
> stream with whatever comments it wants to make, i.e., uses 'stderr' to
> whine.
> 

dup fd 2 to /tmp/program.log.  Then whine on stderr.

> TIA from a lazy programmer.
> 
>  - Mills
> 
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