Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!ucbvax!bloom-beacon!eru!luth!sunic!liuida!isy!lysator.liu.se!zap From: zap@lysator.liu.se (H Andersson) Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga Subject: Re: null modem question Message-ID: <140@lysator.liu.se> Date: 1 Aug 90 12:50:28 GMT References: Sender: news@isy.liu.se (Lord of the News) Distribution: comp.sys.amiga Organization: Lysator Computer Club, Linkoping University, Sweden Lines: 36 owwhite@nmsu.edu (Owen White) writes: >hello >i am working with two amigas null modemed to each other >and i was wondering if there was anyway to use one amiga >as a terminal for the other >i am thinking of another cli being controlled by the amiga on the >null modem >am i making sense. is this possible? what do i do? >please reply to owwhite.nmsu.edu >thanks This is one of the third simplest things in ze world, if you run 1.3 AMigaDOS. You have to type the following (difficult :-) sequence: Mount aux: Newshell aux: H That's it! You have a multi-user Amiga. Now problem is, all those "Please insert disk in bla bla bl drive" but you can make a program that kills thoseose: By setting a pointer in the process control block for your process, called ehm... frogto, but window something, to -1, (it's NUL for workbench screen for those requesters and windowpointer if oyou want them to pop up on other screens) then all requesters will work as if you pressed CANCEL. This is not so bad as it sounds, since you will never get stuck just because you cant insert a disk that may be three miles away.... The Amiga - a multi-user machine! /Z Haakan 'ZAP' Andersson