ISC 2.0.2, How to set baud rate on serial ports?

[Walter Mecky]

In article <1990Aug28.145215.29143 at wolves.uucp> ggw at wolves.uucp (Gregory G. Woodbury) writes:
< The answer is to have a command like:
< 	sleep 10000 >/dev/tty02 &
< preceed your 
< 	stty 9600 </dev/tty02 >/dev/tty02
< 	cat /dev/tty02 >file
< commands.  The sleep keeps the port open but inactive.  For technical
< completeness you should probably get the pid of the sleep command from
< the variable "$!" and kill the sleep process after your transfer is
< done.

Why bother with the sleep command, its time value and killing it?
I suggest:

	( stty 9600
	  cat >file ) </dev/tty02 

Now the port is open exactly in the time is must be. Not longer,
not shorter.
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Walter Mecky	[ walter at mecky.uucp	or  ...uunet!unido!mecky!walter ]