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From: rkent@sparc1.sparc1.csubak.edu (Rick Kent)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.datacomm
Subject: Re: Setting up DNet
Message-ID: <1991May16.013123.637@nic.csu.net>
Date: 16 May 91 08:31:21 GMT
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In article <1515@caslon.cs.arizona.edu> dave@cs.arizona.edu (Dave Schaumann) writes:
>
>I am trying to set up DNet between my Amiga and the Unix box at school.
>As far as I can tell, I have everything set up right.  I type
>
>run DNET -X -b2400 -P0 -Z0 -m0
>
>This seems right, since I have a 2400 baud modem, and I usually have a 8N1
>connection to the school's computer.
>
>Everything is ok so far.  The window pops up, I connect with the school's
>computer, and log in.  Then, on the Unix box, I type
>
>dnet -m0
>
>As advertized, the window goes away, and I get an fterm window, with a
>message saying something about waiting for a connection.  Unfortunately,
>after a few seconds, this window goes away, and nothing further happens.

Not sure why you are having the problem, but I know it took me awhile
to get it working correctly myself.  With Jr-Com I normally call our
Sun Sparc system (SUN OS 4.0?) using 7E1, and the line I use currently
to call the Sun is "run dnet -b2400 -P0 -Z2".  Once I log in, I then
just type "dnet" to start up DNET at the Unix end.  Until I got these
paramaters right I had the same sort of problem you are having.
>
>Also, I have a question about fterm: what sort of terminal emulation does
>it do?  If I can't use GnuEmacs with it, this would greatly limit DNet's
>usefulness to me.  Please tell me there is a way to use full-screen editors
>with DNet...

As far as I can tell so far it appears that fterm doesn't give you any
emulation other than just a standard TTY connection.  There is no vt100
emulation so you can't use any of the full screen editors (at least not
to my knowledge).  Because of this I am possibly considering writing a
new fterm that has vt100 emulation.  I'm currently playing around with
programming some DNET client/servers just to see what I can do.  One of
the first client/server projects I intend to write is an ftp-like file
transfer client.  I'm just now getting comfortable with some of the
DNET programming, so It'll probably be at least several weeks before I
have something close to finished.  If I actually get something working
decently that has any real value I'll post a message here and then
upload it to ab20.larc.nasa.gov.

>
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