Stupid DOS tricks-redirecting console

From: Cameron Kaiser <spectre_at_stockholm.ptloma.edu>
Date: Fri Aug 4 09:15:17 2000

> It's been a long time since I've banged around pure DOS, so I can't
> remember all of its tricks. Here's what I want to do. I want to occasionally
> hook a terminal to a small 486 SBC/data collector which is running
> "headless." I seem to remember that the console I/O can be redirected to a
> COM port with a command like "MODE COM1:=CON" or something like that. I'm
> not at home now, so I can't try it, but am I on the right track? Will that
> redirect both screen and keyboard I/O?

I thought the command was STTY -- for example, STTY NUL is a great way
to make your computer pathologically introverted. ;-)

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