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From: jfm@sol.engin.umich.edu.engin.umich.edu (John Francis Mansfield)
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Subject: Versaterm running on TCP/IP?
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Date: 7 Oct 88 13:33:00 GMT
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Reply-To: jfm@sol.engin.umich.edu.UUCP (John Francis Mansfield)
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Well, now I've got everyones attention, let me hasten to add that I do
not have such a beast but am trying to find out if anyone has
implemented this.  Lonnie Abelbeck tells me that Versaterm uses a very
flexible driver for serial port access and it would be easy to
intercept the data and write a fake driver that in fact connected with
appletalk and could therefore access ethernet via a Kinetics box,
ethernet card access would also be nice but I think that the Kbox
route would be more popular.  Why do I want this you may ask?
Well although the new version of NCSA telnet is very nice, it's MAJOR
shortcoming is the Tektronix emulation.  Although a mite slow teh
VersatermPro 4105 emulation is excellent and it would be a great
addition to our sysytems here if we could plot tek graphics via
network connections with mainfames and minicomputers on the mac
screens. Now a company called Grafpoint promise a tek4107-4115
emulator for the mac soon but this does not yet support tcp/ip either
and the salesman that I talked to didnt see to care when it would. AND
the product COSTS, somewhere near $1000 for the 4115 emulator and
about $500 for the 4107!!  So anyone got any suggestions or ideas?
I do not have the time expertise to write a serial->tcp/ip driver for
versaterm, although Lonnie Abelbeck said hed give whoever would all
the info they would need.  Any volunteers?

John Mansfield.


John Mansfield, North Campus Electron Microbeam Analysis Laboratory,
2455 Hayward, Ann Arbor, Michigan 48109-2143. Ph: (313)-936-3352.
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