On Wed, Jun 25, 2003 at 12:19:51PM -0600, justin wrote:
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>-snip-
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>> Writing directly to a user's tty device may work, but probably won't on a
>> properly configured system since it has many security implications.
>
>I am just trying to write a string of data to an output only device
>connected via a serial port.
....
>However, since this is just a customer display for a cash register, I don't
>think there is anything to worry about.

Writing to a serial port compilicates things a bit since one has
to insure that it's parameters are set correctly (e.g. baud rate,
parity, etc.) -- something like:

stty 9600 cs8 -onlcr clocal < /dev/tty1a

The stty command allows you to set how the end-of-line stuff is
handled as well, and can be used to automatically supply CRLF.

Bill
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