Experimental Physics and Industrial Control System

Nick> Does anyone have a good set of routines for turning off line mode in a
Nick> standard Unix terminal driver (i.e. turning on the equivalent of the
Nick> VxWorks OPT_RAW mode). My problem with the tnetDrv code was that I
Nick> couldn't get the psuedo terminal to go into character mode. I looked
Nick> through all the ioctl codes on Solaris and couldn't find anything that
Nick> looked right, but on the other hand most of the standard communication
Nick> packages use character mode and so it obviously can be done - I just
Nick> couldn't find the codes. The answer must be bleeding obvious, but since I
Nick> have never done this sort of thing before, I got stuck.

Aloha, Nick,

Dig in TFM under section termio(7) and look at "Non-Canonical Mode Input
Processing".  With MIN=0 and TIME=0 input is non-blocking, character mode
input like RAW mode used to be.  These are in the c_cc array in the termios
structure set by the TCSETA ioctl .

Jim

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