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From: phoenix@ms.uky.edu (Dan Chaney)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: null modem question
Message-ID: <15810@s.ms.uky.edu>
Date: 13 Aug 90 13:33:31 GMT
References: <1855@lpami.wimsey.bc.ca> <1990Aug8.033022.2309@monu6.cc.monash.edu.au> <15796@s.ms.uky.edu> <1990Aug12.113606.15833@monu6.cc.monash.edu.au>
Reply-To: phoenix@ms.uky.edu (R'ykandar Korra'ti)
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In article <1990Aug12.113606.15833@monu6.cc.monash.edu.au> edp367s@monu6.cc.monash.edu.au (Rik Harris) writes:
>I am using GETTY, but what I need is a way to get the shell to run on
>the serial port at the speed of the login.  GETTY does autobaud, but I
>need the script that GETTY executes to give me a shell to get the shell
>to run at the correct speed.  By default, AUX: uses the preferences setting,
>not the setting that GETTY has autobauded to.
     OK; cheap and dirty solution. AUX: will also use a value set up in the
mountlist. Try setting up three or four devices which are clones of AUX: but
expecting different baud rates. (I think you can do this...) Have three or
four different login names, one for each baud rate. Have each run a different
script that executes a different AUX: clone - one with the appropriate
corresponding baud rate.
     Yeah, it's grody. But it might work.
     If you can't clone AUX: for some reason, then an even cheaper and
dirtier way would be to save four different preferences files, with the
only difference being the baud rate. Have four accounts, as above, and
have them execute four different scripts, but instead of those scripts
invoking AUX: clones, have them use... oh hells, I can't remember what
it's called - there's a programme available which will let you swap
preferences files from the command line and which will update the system
as well; it may be on an old Fish disk, can't remember - anyway, use
this to change your preferences to the appropriate baud rate, then invoke
AUX:. That should work, too. (At least, until said programme blows up
under WB2.0 :-) ).
                                                      - R'ykandar.

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