On Jun 10 10:42, Helmut Karlowski wrote: > --------------------------------------------------- > > Ideally by somebody who knows how this dreaded Windows serial line API > > works... > > Wouldn't someting like this work: > > term=$'\r' > l= > while true; do read -N1 c > [ "$c" == $'\4' ] && break > [ "$c" == $term ] && { echo "<$l>"; l=; } || l="$l$c" > done > > ? I was talking about coding icrnl support inside Cygwin. Corinna -- Corinna Vinschen Please, send mails regarding Cygwin to Cygwin Maintainer cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Red Hat