Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.1 6/24/83; site dalcs.UUCP Path: utzoo!linus!decvax!dartvax!dalcs!burgess From: burgess@dalcs.UUCP (Chris Burgess) Newsgroups: net.bugs Subject: Re: Csh and stty Message-ID: <1228@dalcs.UUCP> Date: Wed, 8-Aug-84 19:14:40 EDT Article-I.D.: dalcs.1228 Posted: Wed Aug 8 19:14:40 1984 Date-Received: Fri, 10-Aug-84 07:45:14 EDT References: <895@trwrb.UUCP> Organization: Dalhousie U, Halifax N.S. Lines: 10 The reason why stty appears confused is because stty does ioctl's on file descriptor 1 which is standard output for your terminal. If you try to pipe the output through more it does the ioctl's on file descriptor 1 again, but csh redefines it to the pipe going into more. The result being that stty is trying to find out the terminal characteristics of the pipe rather than the terminal. This feature is useful when you want to get or set the attributes of another device e.g. "stty everything > /dev/ttyd0" will give you the characteristics of ttyd0 rather than sending yours as output to ttyd0.