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From: dpd00609@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next
Subject: smart terminal dumb & AppleTalk?
Message-ID: <246300004@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu>
Date: 17 Jun 89 04:40:00 GMT
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Nf-From: uxa.cso.uiuc.edu!dpd00609    Jun 16 23:40:00 1989


I'm having a strange problem that maybe someone can help with.
(what NeXT problem isn't strange?)

We used a Mac printer cable (null modem) to connect a Mac SE running a terminal
emulator to one of the NeXT serial ports.  We edited a line in /etc/ttys
and logged in without much problem.  But for some reason the TERM/TERMCAP
variables were getting set to be a "dumb" terminal instead of "vt100" as 
specified in the /etc/ttys line.  Even more perplexing is the fact that
when I enter "w" or "who", users on a remote terminal don't even show up!
So if the MegaPixel console is logged out and I log on via the serial port
according to "who", nobody's logged on at all.

P.S.  I know that Ethernet is the big thing right now, but our end product
calls for low-cost low-level-protocol networking.  The NeXT has the right
serial chip and connector (Z8530 SCC, mini-DIN8); has anyone heard of trying
to get AppleTalk (at least link access protocol) on the NeXT?

Thanx in advance,
David Doudna, Soft Med
dpd00609@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu