Re: Cat and -u, unbuffered output support

[Paul Jarc]

address@hidden (Bob Proulx) wrote:
>    % stty raw
>    % cat -u > fi

This may not work; the interactive shell may reset the tty modes after
each command, so the first stty would bhave no effect.  This might
work:
% sh -c 'stty raw; cat -u > fi; stty sane'

> Either Stevens with Advanced Programming in the UNIX Environment or
> Rochkind with Advanced UNIX Programming would be my references for
> detailed information about the tty driver.  But I am sure it is
> documented elsewhere too.

The glibc manual has some good bits.


paul