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From: m0154@tnc.UUCP (GUY GARNETT)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.programmer
Subject: Re: Fun With AUX: (Summary)
Message-ID: <711@tnc.UUCP>
Date: 8 Feb 91 18:44:51 GMT
References: <43676@nigel.ee.udel.edu>
Reply-To: m0154@tnc.UUCP (GUY GARNETT)
Organization: The Next Challenge, Fairfax, Va.
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In article <43676@nigel.ee.udel.edu> Dennis_Grant%CMR001.bitnet@ugw.utcs.utoronto.ca writes:
>
>     ... the story so far...
>
>     I couldn't get ROM-WACK to operate without first typing NEWCLI AUX:
>NEWCLI AUX: would write the CLI prompt to my terminal, but refused to
>take any input from it as a command (although it did correctly send-and-
>receive characters from it. It is, after all, a full duplex terminal.)
ROM-WACK needs to have the amiga's serial port already set up for it. 
It can't initialize the thing.  What I have done in the past is to
setup the serial port using Preferences (9600 baud, and whatever other
settings your terminal wants).  If you have or can get Grand-WACK, you
can arrange to have Grand-WACK replace the ROM-WACK vector in memory. 
Grand-WACK makes the serial debugger thing actually useful; I'm not
good enough to get much useful information out of ROM-WACK.  Also, the
Debug option of the workbench's "hidden" menu only crashes my machine,
again, I am not good enought with ROM-WACK to be able to find anything
out that way, and I can't even return from ROM-WACK to the system.

> [Various silly suggestions for getting the CLI to work ... deleted]
Try hitting a ^J (Control-J) instead of [RETURN] at the end of your
commands.  I used to use a VT-52, and don't remember any problems with
entering commands to the CLI.  I don't know what your terminal sends
when you  hit return; I'm guessing it sends a carriage-return (^M);
the Amiga wants a line-feed (^J) at the end of command input. 
ROM-WACK may well be less picky about it.
>
>-------------------------------------------------------------------------->  Dennis Grant   3rd year CS student at Le College Militaire Royal de St-Jean
>  DETUD595@CMR001.BITNET
>  How much do I love thee? My accumulator overflows!


If you are getting characters on the screen, you've got the serial
cable and terminal hardware hooked up correctly; you don't need a
null-modem.  All you have now are software problems :)
Try fiddling around, use ^J to end input.  See if your terminal as a
set-up function, which may allow you  to change things (like what the
return key sends).

Good Luck ... this really does work (I used a VT52 as a debugging aid
for about a year; I recently moved and decided that the VT was too big
and heavy to carry around, so I disposed of it).

Wildstar