How could I redirect the output of a tty in a file?

[Conor P. Cahill]

In article <1990Nov19.162132.18379 at DMI.USherb.CA> bussiere at ganymede.DMI.USherb.CA (Luc Bussieres) writes:
>
>	I'm trying to redirect the output of a tty line to a file
>using the command "cat /dev/ttyb > pacx.log". This is the logging
>messages that come out our Pacx. The problem is that we are loosing 
>characters. Is there a modification I could make to the ttytab or

If you Pacx supports flow control, you should try to set flow control
on the port that you are reading.   For a BSD system it could be
done as follows:

	(stty tandem; cat) < /dev/ttyb > packx.log

or for SYSV

	(stty ixoff; cat) < /dev/ttyb > packx.log

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