Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Path: utzoo!utgpu!watserv1!watcgl!watcgl!bmacinre
From: bmacinre@watcgl.uwaterloo.ca (Blair MacIntyre)
Subject: DNet serial.device (was Re: Using DNet with GnuEmacs)
In-Reply-To: jeffo@mrcnext.cso.uiuc.edu's message of 1 Oct 90 06:07:11 GMT
Message-ID: <1990Oct1.130418.3340@watcgl.waterloo.edu>
Sender: daemon@watcgl.waterloo.edu (Mr Background)
Organization: University of Waterloo
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Date: Mon, 1 Oct 90 13:04:18 GMT
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>>>>> On 1 Oct 90 06:07:11 GMT, jeffo@mrcnext.cso.uiuc.edu (Jeffrey B
>>>>> Nicholson) said:

Jeffrey> weebersa@mentor.cc.purdue.edu (Steve Weeber) writes:

>Has anyone developed an emacs initialization file which does a good job
>of mapping the Amiga keyboard when using DNet?

Jeffrey> Or how about a REAL vt100 Fterm for DNet?  Or possibly a vt102
Jeffrey> (or above) emulator for DNet?

Don't waste time doing that.  What would be great is if someone wrote a
device that took serial port requests but talked through DNET.  So you
could have multiple units be separate DNET connections and use _any_
program that allows you to specify the serial device name you want to
use (which is more prevalent now that there are multi-serial cards).
This would allow the use of VLT, for example.  But now I could run
multiple terminal programs!  It would be awesome!

No chance I'll do it, I don't know enough about devices.  Someone who
knows how device works and has written a serial device should be able to
do this in no time flat.  :-) 

Heck, I'd be willing to try it if I had the source to a serial device.
The programming aspects don't bother me, it's the figuring out of the
device that I don't feel like doing on my own.

Blair
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