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NAME

       IO::Stty - Change and print terminal line settings

SYNOPSIS

           # calling the script directly
           stty.pl [setting...]
           stty.pl {-a,-g,-v,--version}

           # Calling Stty module
           use IO::Stty;
           IO::Stty::stty(\*TTYHANDLE, @modes);

            use IO::Stty;
            $old_mode=IO::Stty::stty(\*STDIN,'-g');

            # Turn off echoing.
            IO::Stty::stty(\*STDIN,'-echo');

            # Do whatever.. grab input maybe?
            $read_password = <>;

            # Now restore the old mode.
            IO::Stty::stty(\*STDIN,$old_mode);

            # What settings do we have anyway?
            print IO::Stty::stty(\*STDIN,'-a');

DESCRIPTION

       This is the PERL POSIX compliant stty.

INTRO

       This has not been tailored to the IO::File stuff but will work with it as indicated.
       Before you go futzing with term parameters it's a good idea to grab the current settings
       and restore them when you finish.

       stty accepts the following non-option arguments that change aspects of the terminal line
       operation. A `[-]' before a capability means that it can be turned off by preceding it
       with a `-'.

stty parameters

   Control settings
       [-]parenb
           Generate parity bit in output and expect parity bit in input.

       [-]parodd
           Set odd parity (even with `-').

       cs5 cs6 cs7 cs8
           Set character size to 5, 6, 7, or 8 bits.

       [-]hupcl [-]hup
           Send a hangup signal when the last process closes the tty.

       [-]cstopb
           Use two stop bits per character (one with `-').

       [-]cread
           Allow input to be received.

       [-]clocal
           Disable modem control signals.

   Input settings
       [-]ignbrk
           Ignore break characters.

       [-]brkint
           Breaks cause an interrupt signal.

       [-]ignpar
           Ignore characters with parity errors.

       [-]parmrk
           Mark parity errors (with a 255-0-character sequence).

       [-]inpck
           Enable input parity checking.

       [-]istrip
           Clear high (8th) bit of input characters.

       [-]inlcr
           Translate newline to carriage return.

       [-]igncr
           Ignore carriage return.

       [-]icrnl
           Translate carriage return to newline.

       [-]ixon
           Enable XON/XOFF flow control.

       [-]ixoff
           Enable sending of stop character when the system input buffer is almost full, and
           start character when it becomes almost empty again.

   Output settings
       [-]opost
           Postprocess output.

   Local settings
       [-]isig
           Enable interrupt, quit, and suspend special characters.

       [-]icanon
           Enable erase, kill, werase, and rprnt special characters.

       [-]echo
           Echo input characters.

       [-]echoe, [-]crterase
           Echo erase characters as backspace-space-backspace.

       [-]echok
           Echo a newline after a kill character.

       [-]echonl
           Echo newline even if not echoing other characters.

       [-]noflsh
           Disable flushing after interrupt and quit special characters.

           * Though this claims non-posixhood it is supported by the perl POSIX.pm.

       [-]tostop (np)
           Stop background jobs that try to write to the terminal.

   Combination settings
       ek  Reset the erase and kill special characters to their default values.

       sane
           Same as:

               cread -ignbrk brkint -inlcr -igncr icrnl -ixoff opost
               isig icanon echo echoe echok -echonl -noflsh -tostop

           also sets all special characters to their default values.

       [-]cooked
           Same as:

               brkint ignpar istrip icrnl ixon opost isig icanon

           plus sets the eof and eol characters to their default values if they are the same as
           the min and time characters.  With `-', same as raw.

       [-]raw
           Same as:

               -ignbrk -brkint -ignpar -parmrk -inpck -istrip -inlcr -igncr
               -icrnl -ixon -ixoff -opost -isig -icanon min 1 time 0

           With `-', same as cooked.

       [-]pass8
           Same as:

               -parenb -istrip cs8

           With  `-',  same  as parenb istrip cs7.

       dec Same as:

               echoe echoctl echoke -ixany

           Also sets the interrupt special character to Ctrl-C, erase to Del, and kill to Ctrl-U.

   Special characters
       The special characters' default values vary from system to system. They are set with the
       syntax `name value', where the names are listed below and the value can be given either
       literally, in hat notation (`^c'), or as an integer which may start with `0x' to indicate
       hexadecimal, `0' to indicate octal, or any other digit to indicate decimal.  Giving a
       value of `^-' or `undef' disables that special character.

       intr
           Send an interrupt signal.

       quit
           Send a quit signal.

       erase
           Erase the last character typed.

       kill
           Erase the current line.

       eof Send an end of file (terminate the input).

       eol End the line.

       start
           Restart the output after stopping it.

       stop
           Stop the output.

       susp
           Send a terminal stop signal.

   Special settings
       min N
           Set the minimum number of characters that will satisfy a read until the time value has
           expired,  when <E>-icanon<E> is set.

       time N
           Set the number of tenths of a second before reads time out if the min number of
           characters  have  not been read, when -icanon is set.

       N   Set the input and output speeds to N.  N can be one of: 0 50 75 110 134 134.5 150 200
           300 600 1200 1800 2400 4800 9600 19200 38400 exta extb.  exta is  the same  as 19200;
           extb is the same as 38400.  0 hangs up the line if -clocal is set.

   OPTIONS
       -a  Print all current settings in human-readable  form.

       -g  Print all current settings in a form  that  can  be used  as  an  argument  to
           another stty command to restore the current settings.

       -v,--version
           Print version info.

Direct Subroutines

       stty()
               IO::Stty::stty(\*STDIN, @params);

           From comments:

               I'm not feeling very inspired about this. Terminal parameters are obscure
               and boring. Basically what this will do is get the current setting,
               take the parameters, modify the setting and write it back. Zzzz.
               This is not especially efficent and probably not too fast. Assuming the POSIX
               spec has been implemented properly it should mostly work.

       show_me_the_crap()
           Needs documentation

AUTHOR

       Austin Schutz <auschutz@cpan.org> (Initial version and maintenance)

       Todd Rinaldo <toddr@cpan.org> (Maintenance)

BUGS

       This is use at your own risk software. Do anything you want with it except blame me for it
       blowing up your machine because it's full of bugs.

       See above for what functions are supported. It's mostly standard POSIX stuff. If any of
       the settings are wrong and you actually know what some of these extremely arcane settings
       (like what 'sane' should be in POSIX land) really should be, please open an RT ticket.

ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS

       None

COPYRIGHT & LICENSE

       Copyright 1997 Austin Schutz, all rights reserved.

       This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the same
       terms as Perl itself.