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Subject: Re: set serial port
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Date: Tue, 28-Apr-87 12:37:10 EDT
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Posted: Tue Apr 28 12:37:10 1987
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Here's a tip about hooking up a dumb terminal to the Amiga. My business
partner and I purchased the Metacomco Toolkit software package. The Toolkit
has some features available, one of which was helpful to us. The feature we
used the most was "Mount Aux:" and it enabled us to basically set up, after
the proper parameters were defined (e.g., baud rate, etc.), a dumb terminal
as a newcli. Also, since a telephone modem is bacially an extension of the
serial port, we were able to modify the parameters as mentioned above and the
interesting result was that we could use a public domain telecommunications
package to call the other Amiga (for instance, I'd use Comm1.3 to call his
Amiga which had an AUX: already mounted) and I could type in AmigaDOS
     
commands it would work on his machine. Under the mounted Aux: and newcli that
I operated under (via the phone lines), I was able to have my own current
directory (cd) and I could manipulate a lot of things. I could even instruct
the Juggler to boot. Of course, he had to stop the Juggler at his terminal,
thus limiting the Dumb terminal user to simple DOS routines with no graphics
user interface. If anyone plans on doing this, there is one bug we found in
this whole process: Make sure you set your preferences to 60 columns on both
ends (over the phone lines) but if you're simply connecting a dumb terminal,
then 80 column text should work! Good Luck one and all!
     
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