I was wondering if there's a way to make a serial terminal output only one line at a time until the return is pressed...I'm trying to hookup my ti-85 to the serial output of an Intel Galileo board...It has a VT-100 emulator and it works, but it gets a little confused sometimes when many lines come in at a time (9600 baud, no hardware flow control)

Hi there,

I guess the problem is not where you think it is. Your little terminal probably works fine; I'm very certain it simply processes the data one character at a time, and exactly in the order they appear on the communication line.

Instead, the problem is that for standard I/O channels like stdout, Linux blends the output of all running processes into one stream. You can also see that if you start several applications from the console - their output will be scrambled together. And this mess is exactly redirected to a TTY port if you configure it that way.

Sometimes I, too, find that annoying, but I can't think of an easy way to change this.

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You could try xon-xoff flow control if it's supported by your system.

One possibility is to pipe all of the output to the more command (or the less command ...), requesting that it provide you with only one line at a time rather than its usual one screen at a time. This command would receive all of the stuff to displayed in its STDIN stream, then dole it out for you "one line at a time, waiting for Return to be pressed," to its STDOUT.