design comments solicited

[nelson-gtk crynwr com]

I can only find one (1) X application designed to manipulate termios,
and that's minicom.  Maybe there's others, but in the meantime, I'm
going to cons up something gtk-ish.  My plan is to use a separate X
terminal for the terminal part.  In it, I'll run a program which reads
from stdin and writes to the serial device, and reads from the serial
device and writes to stdout.  Does this sound like a good plan?  The
only difficulty I forsee is shutting that program down when the main
program is doing a data upload/download.

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