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| <h2 class="chapter">17 Low-Level Terminal Interface</h2> |
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| <p>This chapter describes functions that are specific to terminal devices. |
| You can use these functions to do things like turn off input echoing; |
| set serial line characteristics such as line speed and flow control; and |
| change which characters are used for end-of-file, command-line editing, |
| sending signals, and similar control functions. |
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| descriptor is and how to open a file descriptor for a terminal device. |
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| details of terminal I/O: echoing, |
| signals, editing. Posix. |
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