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From: rmariani@watmum.UUCP (Rico Mariani)
Newsgroups: net.micro.amiga
Subject: Re: CLI on a terminal.
Message-ID: <611@watmum.UUCP>
Date: Mon, 29-Sep-86 00:17:44 EDT
Article-I.D.: watmum.611
Posted: Mon Sep 29 00:17:44 1986
Date-Received: Tue, 30-Sep-86 08:23:23 EDT
References: <8609260632.AA26339@cory.Berkeley.EDU>
Reply-To: rmariani@watmum.UUCP (Rico Mariani)
Organization: U of Waterloo, Ontario
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Summary: 

MetaCompco has released an AmigaDOS toolkit disks which among other things
includes a device driver called aux: whose misson in life is to allow
you to have a CLI out on the serial port.  It basically provides "cooked"
input w/o buffering.  It's real handy, I've already had a friend "log in"
to my Amiga over a modem and do stuff.  The biggest problem (feature?)
is that when the guy on the serial port asks for a volume that isn't
mounted, the requestor pops up on the "console", it's distracting to say
the least.

Also on this disk is the infamous pipe: driver as advertised on Beta 4 (?)
of kickstart.  That's real handy too.

The only other really useful thing on the disk is an object disassembler
which works on executables rather than on .o files like "omd".


	-Rico

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