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From: crum@utah-cs.UUCP (Gary L. Crum)
Newsgroups: net.micro.amiga
Subject: Amiga serial port "login" capability
Message-ID: <3700@utah-cs.UUCP>
Date: Sun, 2-Mar-86 03:07:34 EST
Article-I.D.: utah-cs.3700
Posted: Sun Mar  2 03:07:34 1986
Date-Received: Mon, 3-Mar-86 00:35:01 EST
Organization: University of Utah CS Dept
Lines: 22
Keywords: serial port, MicroEMACS, cli


By making MicroEMACS open SER: instead of RAW:, I can use a vt100 compatible
terminal connected to the serial port of an Amiga to edit files, saving the
Amiga console for other things.  I've used a Macintosh running the Versaterm
terminal emulator program for this purpose. MicroEMACS does an Open() in its
ttopen() procedure, located in the termio.c file.  The one obvious drawback is
that ^S and ^Q are stolen (by the SER: driver, I presume) and used for
XON/XOFF flow control. I've had to rebind the MicroEMACS functions that use
those characters.

I tried to start up a cli session on the remote terminal with the command
'newcli "SER:"', but it fails.  The message "New CLI task n" is output to
the terminal, along with the"n>" prompt, but nothing works after that.
Perhaps the newcli program doesn't use read procedure calls that work with
SER:.  After all, it was really intended to be run in Intuition windows.
I'm not intimately familiar with AmigaDOS;  Does anyone care to explain this?

I haven't compiled any of the other cli programs;  Can they be adapted
(easily) to work with the SER: device?

Gary L. Crum
crum@utah-cs.{UUCP,ARPA}