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- Subject: Re: Sending CTRL-C over a serial line?
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- From: danpop@mail.cern.ch (Dan Pop)
- Date: 28 Mar 96 13:18:28 GMT
- References: <4ja0hq$91n@news.oscs.montana.edu> <4jc7vhINN7nh@mayne.ugrad.cs.ubc.ca>
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- In <4jc7vhINN7nh@mayne.ugrad.cs.ubc.ca> c2a192@ugrad.cs.ubc.ca (Kazimir Kylheku) writes:
-
- >In article <4ja0hq$91n@news.oscs.montana.edu>,
- > <gko2708@msu.oscs.montana.edu> wrote:
- > >Hey,
- > >Can anyone tell me how to send a Ctrl-C over a serial line to another PC
- > >ad..and then have that PC respond as if it came from its own keyboard?
- >
- >You run Linux on the remote machine. The terminal driver sends signals to the
- >foreground process group of the session associated with that tty, facilitating
- >job control.
- >
- >Oh, you aren't running a PC UNIX? Too bad.
-
- Even the brain dead MSDOS allows the redirection of the CON: device to
- a COMx port (the CTTY command, if memory serves). Of course, once you
- do this, 95% of the DOS applications stop working properly, because they
- completely bypass MSDOS for screen output and keyboard input :-)
-
- Dan, completely off topic :-)
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- Dan Pop
- CERN, CN Division
- Email: danpop@mail.cern.ch
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