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STTY(1)			     BSD Reference Manual		       STTY(1)

NAME
     stty - set the options for a terminal device interface

SYNOPSIS
     stty [-D] [-a | -e | -g] [-f file] [operands]

DESCRIPTION
     The stty utility sets or reports on terminal characteristics for the de-
     vice that is its standard input.  If no options or operands are speci-
     fied, it reports the settings of a subset of characteristics as well as
     additional ones if they differ from their default values.	Otherwise it
     modifies the terminal state according to the specified arguments.	Some
     combinations of arguments are mutually exclusive on some terminal types.

     The following options are available:

     -a	     Display all the current settings for the terminal to standard
	     output as per IEEE Std1003.2 (``POSIX'').

     -D	     Display or set the system default settings rather than those for
	     the current device.  The system defaults are used when a device
	     is initially opened.  The system defaults may be set only by the
	     superuser.

     -e	     Display all the current settings for the terminal to standard
	     output in the traditional BSD ``all'' and ``everything'' formats.

     -f	     Open and use the terminal named by file rather than using stan-
	     dard input.  The file is opened using the O_NONBLOCK flag of
	     open(), making it possible to set or display settings on a termi-
	     nal that might otherwise block on the open.

     -g	     Display all the current settings, other than modem control sta-
	     tus, for the terminal to standard output in a form that may be
	     used as an argument to a subsequent invocation of stty to restore
	     the current terminal state as per IEEE Std1003.2 (``POSIX'').
	     Note that modem control status refers to dtr, cts, etc, and not
	     to rts_iflow or cts_oflow.

     The following arguments are available to set the terminal characteris-
     tics.  For a more detailed discussion, see termios(4).

   Control Modes:
     Control mode flags affect hardware characteristics associated with the
     terminal.	This corresponds to the c_cflag in the termios structure.

     parenb (-parenb)
		 Enable (disable) parity generation and detection.

     parodd (-parodd)
		 Select odd (even) parity.

     cs5 cs6 cs7 cs8
		 Select character size, if possible.

     number	 Set terminal baud rate to the number given, if possible.  If
		 the baud rate is set to zero, modem control is no longer as-
		 serted.

     ispeed number
		 Set terminal input baud rate to the number given, if possi-
		 ble.  If the input baud rate is set to zero, the input baud

		 rate is set to the value of the output baud rate.

     ospeed number
		 Set terminal output baud rate to the number given, if possi-
		 ble.  If the output baud rate is set to zero, modem control
		 is no longer asserted.

     speed number
		 This sets both ispeed and ospeed to number.

     hupcl (-hupcl)
		 Stop asserting modem control (do not stop asserting modem
		 control) on last close.

     hup (-hup)	 Same as hupcl (-hupcl).

     cstopb (-cstopb)
		 Use two (one) stop bits per character.

     cread (-cread)
		 Enable (disable) the receiver.

     clocal (-clocal)
		 Assume a line without (with) modem control.

     noclocal (-noclocal)
		 Do not allow a transition from -clocal to clocal. Only the
		 super user may clear noclocal.

     cts_oflow (-cts_oflow)
		 Enable (disable) CTS (output) flow control.  The name crtscts
		 is an alias for cts_oflow.

     rts_iflow (-rts_iflow)
		 Enable (disable) RTS (input, really RTR) flow control.

   Input Modes:
     This corresponds to the c_iflag in the termios structure.

     ignbrk (-ignbrk)
		 Ignore (do not ignore) break on input.

     brkint (-brkint)
		 Signal (do not signal) INTR on break.

     ignpar (-ignpar)
		 Ignore (do not ignore) parity errors.

     parmrk (-parmrk)
		 Mark (do not mark) parity errors.

     inpck (-inpck)
		 Enable (disable) input parity checking.

     istrip (-istrip)
		 Strip (do not strip) input characters to seven bits.

     inlcr (-inlcr)
		 Map (do not map) NL to CR on input.

     igncr (-igncr)
		 Ignore (do not ignore) CR on input.

     icrnl (-icrnl)

		 Map (do not map) CR to NL on input.

     ixon (-ixon)
		 Enable (disable) START/STOP output control.  Output from the
		 system is stopped when the system receives STOP and started
		 when the system receives START, or if ixany is set, any char-
		 acter restarts output.

     ixoff (-ixoff)
		 Request that the system send (not send) START/STOP characters
		 when the input queue is nearly empty/full.

     ixany (-ixany)
		 Allow any character (allow only START) to restart output.

     imaxbel (-imaxbel)
		 The system imposes a limit of MAX_INPUT (currently 255) char-
		 acters in the input queue.  If imaxbel is set and the input
		 queue limit has been reached, subsequent input causes the
		 system to send an ASCII BEL character to the output queue
		 (the terminal beeps at you).  Otherwise, if imaxbel is unset
		 and the input queue is full, the next input character causes
		 the entire input and output queues to be discarded.

   Output Modes:
     This corresponds to the c_oflag of the termios structure.

     opost (-opost)
		 Post-process output (do not post-process output; ignore all
		 other output modes).

     onlcr (-onlcr)
		 Map (do not map) NL to CR-NL on output.

     oxtabs (-oxtabs)
		 Expand (do not expand) tabs to spaces on output.

   Modem Control Status:
     These display the current state of modem control.	They are only dis-
     played for actual tty lines and not for pseudo tty lines (more precisely,
     it is only displayed for lines which support the TIOCMGET ioctl.  See
     tty(4).)  While it is possible to change the state of the modem control
     lines, the hardware or other software may prevent the change from actual-
     ly taking place, or may cause the state to immediately revert to the
     original state.

     dcd (-dcd)	 State of Data Carrier Detect.

     dsr (-dsr)	 State of Data Set Ready.

     dtr (-dtr)	 State of Data Terminal Ready.

     cts (-cts)	 State of Clear To Send.

     rts (-rts)	 State of Request To Send.

   Local Modes:
     Local mode flags (lflags) affect various and sundry characteristics of
     terminal processing.  Historically the term "local" pertained to new job
     control features implemented by Jim Kulp on a Pdp 11/70 at IIASA. Later
     the driver ran on the first VAX at Evans Hall, UC Berkeley, where the job
     control details were greatly modified but the structure definitions and
     names remained essentially unchanged.  The second interpretation of the
     'l' in lflag is ``line discipline flag'' which corresponds to the c_lflag

     of the termios structure.

     isig (-isig)
		 Enable (disable) the checking of characters against the spe-
		 cial control characters INTR, QUIT, and SUSP.

     icanon (-icanon)
		 Enable (disable) canonical input (ERASE and KILL processing).

     iexten (-iexten)
		 Enable (disable) any implementation defined special control
		 characters not currently controlled by icanon, isig, or ixon.

     echo (-echo)
		 Echo back (do not echo back) every character typed.

     echoe (-echoe)
		 The ERASE character shall (shall not) visually erase the last
		 character in the current line from the display, if possible.

     echok (-echok)
		 Echo (do not echo) NL after KILL character.

     echoke (-echoke)
		 The KILL character shall (shall not) visually erase the the
		 current line from the display, if possible.

     echonl (-echonl)
		 Echo (do not echo) NL, even if echo is disabled.

     echoctl (-echoctl)
		 If echoctl is set, echo control characters as ^X.  Otherwise
		 control characters echo as themselves.

     echoprt (-echoprt)
		 For printing terminals. If set, echo erased characters back-
		 wards within ``\'' and ``/''.	Otherwise, disable this fea-
		 ture.

     noflsh (-noflsh)
		 Disable (enable) flush after INTR, QUIT, SUSP.

     tostop (-tostop)
		 Send (do not send) SIGTTOU for background output.  This caus-
		 es background jobs to stop if they attempt terminal output.

     altwerase (-altwerase)
		 Use (do not use) an alternate word erase algorithm when pro-
		 cessing WERASE characters.  This alternate algorithm consid-
		 ers sequences of alphanumeric/underscores as words.  It also
		 skips the first preceding character in its classification (as
		 a convenience since the one preceding character could have
		 been erased with simply an ERASE character.)

     mdmbuf (-mdmbuf)
		 If set, flow control output based on condition of Carrier De-
		 tect.	Otherwise writes return an error if Carrier Detect is
		 low (and Carrier is not being ignored with the CLOCAL flag.)

     flusho (-flusho)
		 Indicates output is (is not) being discarded.

     pendin (-pendin)
		 Indicates input is (is not) pending after a switch from non-
		 canonical to canonical mode and will be re-input when a read
		 becomes pending or more input arrives.

   Control Characters:

     control-character string
		 Set control-character to string. If string is a single char-
		 acter, the control character is set to that character.	 If
		 string is the two character sequence "^-" or the string "un-
		 def" the control character is disabled (i.e. set to
		 {_POSIX_VDISABLE}.)

		 Recognized control-characters:

		       control-
		       character    Subscript	 Description
		       _________    _________	 _______________
		       eof	    VEOF	 EOF character
		       eol	    VEOL	 EOL character
		       eol2	    VEOL2	 EOL2 character
		       erase	    VERASE	 ERASE character
		       werase	    VWERASE	 WERASE character
		       intr	    VINTR	 INTR character
		       kill	    VKILL	 KILL character
		       quit	    VQUIT	 QUIT character
		       susp	    VSUSP	 SUSP character
		       start	    VSTART	 START character
		       stop	    VSTOP	 STOP character
		       dsusp	    VDSUSP	 DSUSP character
		       lnext	    VLNEXT	 LNEXT character
		       reprint	    VREPRINT	 REPRINT character
		       status	    VSTATUS	 STATUS character

     min number

     time number
		 Set the value of min or time to number.  MIN and TIME are
		 used in Non-Canonical mode input processing (-icanon).

   Combination Modes:

     saved settings
		 Set the current terminal characteristics to the saved set-
		 tings produced by the -g option.

     evenp or parity
		 Enable parenb and cs7; disable parodd.

     oddp	 Enable parenb, cs7, and parodd.

     -parity, -evenp, -oddp
		 Disable parenb, and set cs8.

     nl (-nl)	 Enable (disable) icrnl.  In addition -nl unsets inlcr and
		 igncr.

     ek		 Reset ERASE and KILL characters back to system defaults.

     sane	 Resets all modes to reasonable values for interactive termi-
		 nal use.

     slip	 Set the line discipline to the slip line discipline SLIPDISC.

     tty	 Set the line discipline to the standard terminal line disci-
		 pline TTYDISC.

     flushin	 Flush the input queue for the device.

     flushout	 Flush the output queue for the device.	 This is most useful
		 when an exiting process is stuck waiting for terminal output
		 to drain.

     crt (-crt)	 Set (disable) all modes suitable for a CRT display device.

     kerninfo (-kerninfo)
		 Enable (disable) the system generated status line associated
		 with processing a STATUS character (usually set to ^T).  The
		 status line consists of the system load average, the current
		 command name, its process ID, the event the process is wait-
		 ing on (or the status of the process), the user and system
		 times, percent cpu, and current memory usage.

     columns number
		 The terminal size is recorded as having number columns.

     cols number
		 is an alias for columns.

     rows number
		 The terminal size is recorded as having number rows.

     dec	 Set modes suitable for users of Digital Equipment Corporation
		 systems ( ERASE, KILL, and INTR characters are set to ^?, ^U,
		 and ^C; ixany is disabled, and crt is enabled.)

     extproc (-extproc)
		 If set, this flag indicates that some amount of terminal pro-
		 cessing is being performed by either the terminal hardware or
		 by the remote side connected to a pty.

     raw (-raw)	 If set, change the modes of the terminal so that no input or
		 output processing is performed. If unset, change the modes of
		 the terminal to some reasonable state that performs input and
		 output processing.  Note that since the terminal driver no
		 longer has a single RAW bit, it is not possible to intuit
		 what flags were set prior to setting raw. This means that un-
		 setting raw may not put back all the setting that were previ-
		 ously in effect.  To set the terminal into a raw state and
		 then accurately restore it, the following shell code is rec-
		 ommended:

		 save_state=$(stty -g)
		 stty raw
		 ...
		 stty "$save_state"

     size	 The size of the terminal is printed as two numbers on a sin-
		 gle line, first rows, then columns.

   Compatibility Modes:
     These modes remain for compatibility with the previous version of the
     stty command.

     all	 Reports all the terminal modes as with stty -a except that
		 the control characters are printed in a columnar format.

     everything	 Same as all.

     cooked	 Same as sane.

     cbreak	 If set, enables brkint, ixon, imaxbel, opost, isig, iexten,

		 and -icanon. If unset, same as sane.

     new	 Same as tty.

     old	 Same as tty.

     newcrt (-newcrt)
		 Same as crt.

     pass8	 The converse of parity.

     tandem (-tandem)
		 Same as ixoff.

     decctlq (-decctlq)
		 The converse of ixany.

     crterase (-crterase)
		 Same as echoe.

     crtbs (-crtbs)
		 Same as echoe.

     crtkill (-crtkill)
		 Same as echoke.

     ctlecho (-ctlecho)
		 Same as echoctl.

     prterase (-prterase)
		 Same as echoprt.

     litout (-litout)
		 The converse of opost.

     tabs (-tabs)
		 The converse of tabs.

     brk value	 Same as the control character eol.

     flush value
		 Same as the control character discard.

     rprnt value
		 Same as the control character reprint.

     The stty utility exits with a value of 0 if successful, and >0 if an er-
     ror occurs.

SEE ALSO
     termios(4),  rs-232(7)

STANDARDS
     The stty function is expected to be IEEE Std1003.2 (``POSIX'') compati-
     ble.  The flags -e, -f and -D are extensions to the standard.  The slip,
     tty flushin and flushout keywords are extensions to the standard.

BSDI BSD/OS			 June 1, 1994				     7
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