stty icrnl

[Helmut Karlowski]

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> 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

?
-Helmut


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