get terminal speed from shell script

[Bob McGowen x4312 dept208]

In article <90Aug12.135618edt.18763 at me.utoronto.ca> sun at hammer.me.UUCP (Andy Sun Anu-guest) writes:
  >Hi Net,
  >
  >The question I have is:
  >
  >Is there a way to get the terminal speed from a (sh or csh) script?
  >
  >I used to be able to do the following in a Bourne shell script:
  >
  >			speed=`stty speed`
  >
  >and got the terminal speed assigned to variable speed. As various OS
  >gets updated (e.g. Ultrix 3.1 and SUN OS 4.0.3), this won't work anymore
  >because all stty outputs are being sent to stderr, not stdout, thus no
  >piping or redirection is possible. Is there any similar commands that can 
You CAN still cause redirection to occur.
  >get terminal speed inside a shell script?

I just tried the following:

   date>date.data
   echo 'echo date.data >&2 # sends file name to standard error' > errout
   chmod +x errout
   cat `errout` # date.data appeared on screen, cat read terminal
   		# this is the expected result
   cat `errout 2>&1` # the date stored in the file was cat'ed to the screen

Of course, this is the Bourne shell, not csh.  I cannot vouch for how or if
this is possible with csh.

Bob McGowan  (standard disclaimer, these are my own ...)
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