Reading long lines from TTY

[David Lassner]

Any suggestions on using standard utilities to read VERY
long lines from the TTY using Unix (Ultrix 2.2).  The
intuitive:
	%cat > filename
and
	%cp /dev/ttyxx filename
both stop accepting characters after about 250 without a CR.

Our user basically wants to do the equivalent of a TOPS-20
	@copy tty: filename
to upload text that does not contain line breaks.  Yes, we
know about Kermit and other protocols, but they can't be
used in this case.

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David Lassner, University of Hawaii Computing Center, 808/948-7351
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