get terminal speed from shell script

[Arthur Tateishi]

In artcle <90Aug12.135618edt.18763 at me.utoronto.ca> sun at me.utoronto.ca (Andy Sun Anu-guest) writes:

>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 
>get terminal speed inside a shell script?

I find it odd that the SUN man pages still specify option info is output
on stdout...  Maybe I shouldn't be surprised.

However, I since stty seems to go bonkers when stdout goes to something
other than a proper tty device, I came up with the following.
		speed=`stty speed 3>&2 2>&1 1>&3` 
This essentially swaps stdout and stderr with a dangling file descriptor 3
which could be closed with 3>&- however it shouldn't matter. Be warned,
if stderr has been modified to be a socket going somewhere, it will likely
blow up with 'stty: Operation not supported on socket.' so you could use
		speed=`stty speed 2>&1 1>/dev/tty` 
which also has its drawbacks. 
Sorry, I can't confirm this for Ultrix. 

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