Read and write /dev/ttya?

[Barry Margolin]

In article <MONTNARO.91Jan18213947 at spyder.crd.ge.com> montanaro at crdgw1.ge.com (Skip Montanaro) writes:
>The getc() just hangs. What am I doing wrong?

Does the device send carriage return after its response?  If not, you have
to put the terminal device in the mode where it returns characters
immediately.  You don't say what flavor of Unix you're using, so I can't
tell you the exact ioctl to use.
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