I am trying to enable/disable h/w handshaking, so went to
'man stty' and found it lists a few commands that start with
an asterisk:

for example for handshaking it lists
* [-]crtsscts

and for number of terminal rows
* rows N

the significance of the * escapes me?

Thanks
TonyB

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Joaco wrote:
> I am trying to enable/disable h/w handshaking, so went to
> 'man stty' and found it lists a few commands that start with
> an asterisk:
>
> for example for handshaking it lists
> * [-]crtsscts
>
> and for number of terminal rows
> * rows N
>
> the significance of the * escapes me?

from stty(1) ("man 1 stty")

"Optional - before SETTING indicates negation. An * marks
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non-POSIX settings. The underlying system defines which
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settings are available."


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Enterprise Technology Solutions, TD Bank Financial Group

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