Re: [MiNT] TosWin console

[Peter Slegg <p.slegg@scubadivers.co.uk>]

On Fri, 22 Aug 2009 18:52:40 , Peter Slegg <p.slegg@scubadivers.co.uk> wrote:
> On Sat, 22 Aug 2009 17:52:17 , Vincent Rivière <vincent.riviere@freesbee.fr> wrote:
> > Peter Slegg wrote:
> > > bash-2.05a# stty onlcr > /dev/console
> > > stty: standard input: unable to perform all requested operations
> > >
> > > TosWin 2.2 does the same too so I think we can rule that out.
> >
> > Sorry I didn't understood the problem was with /dev/console.
> >
> > The following command seems to fix the problems:
> > stty -F /dev/console cooked
> > It will display the same error message, but don't trust it, stty has
> > actually made his job.
> >
> > For information, when "raw" is used instead of "cooked", it reverts to
> > the "stairs" behaviour (and no error message is displayed).
> >
> > I'm not sure where the output of /dev/console should go, I remember
> > having seen different results in different MiNT setups...
> >
> > The previous command worked for me, but I currently have a special
> > version of FreeMiNT and stty, so I'm not sure it works everywhere.
> >
> > I looked at the source of stty, it uses <termios.h> and functions like
> > tcsetattr() and friends... I'm absolutely not familiar with that stuff,
> > but it appears there is a level of translation in the kernel at the tty
> > level (of course these conversions does not occur in plain TOS).
> >
> > I believe the code related to that stuff is mostly correct (excepted the
> > stty error message), but the defaults are probably wrong for the MiNT
> > console since we experience stairs by default.
> >
>
> I just tried the stty command and it makes no change to the console
> ouput.

Ooops, I am stupid.  It DOES work.

Regards,

Peter