Faking a Control Q from a device

[Chip Rosenthal]

In article <1120 at xroads.UUCP> willis at xroads.UUCP (Raymond Willis) writes:
>Is there a way to make the system think the plotter has sent a Control Q?

If you compile the following as "xon", you could then do, for
example, "xon /dev/tty2a" to unstick tty2a.

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#include <stdio.h>
#include <fcntl.h>
#include <termio.h>

main(argc,argv)
int argc;
char *argv[];
{
    int fd;
    if ( argc != 2 ) {
	fprintf(stderr,"usage: %s device\n",argv[0]);
	exit(1);
    }
    if ( (fd=open(argv[1],O_RDONLY)) < 0 ) {
	perror(argv[1]);
	exit(1);
    }
    if ( ioctl(fd,TCXONC,1) != 0 ) {
	perror(argv[1]);
	exit(1);
    }
    close(fd);
    exit(0);
}
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Chip Rosenthal  <chip at chinacat.Unicom.COM>
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