disabling parity in C program?
David J. Camp
david at wubios.wustl.edu
Thu Apr 6 08:45:54 AEST 1989
I am working on a C program to print a file on the printer attached to
my vt100 terminal. Actually it is an IBM-PC running Kermit. I know
what codes to send to turn the printer on and off. I open the "dev/tty"
file to fool any program which uses my program into passing the
characters through (i.e I do not merely send them to stdout or stderr).
Now I want to force the characters to be sent with 8 bits, no parity.
The parity bit causes my Epson to print in italics, and really confuses
an HP LaserJet. I cannot configure my terminal for even parity for
other reasons. I studied the man pages for a long time, trying to
figure out what system call would set the outgoing characters to no
parity, without success. If anyone can help me, I would appreciate it.
I am using a Sun 3/260 running SunOS 4.0.1. -David-
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