cbreak mode

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cbreak mode (sometimes called rare mode) is a mode of a terminal or pseudo terminal character device in Unix-like systems, between raw mode and cooked mode. Unlike cooked mode it works with single characters at a time, rather than forcing a wait for a whole line and then feeding the line in all at once. Yet unlike raw mode, keystrokes like abort (usually Control-C) are still processed by the terminal and will interrupt the process.

[edit] See also

• Raw mode
• Cooked mode
• Terminal emulator
• Serial communications
• Chapter Serial communications in Linux and Unix of the Serial Data Communications Programming Wikibook
• Command and Data modes

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This article was originally based on material from the Free On-line Dictionary of Computing, which is licensed under the GFDL.