Xref: utzoo comp.sys.att:8836 unix-pc.general:4859 Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!wuarchive!husc6!cmcl2!sbcs!icus!lenny From: lenny@icus.islp.ny.us (Lenny Tropiano) Newsgroups: comp.sys.att,unix-pc.general Subject: Re: XT Layers for DMD/blit terminals (was: Re: Unix PC 3.51 smgr) Message-ID: <1097@icus.islp.ny.us> Date: 18 Feb 90 19:46:59 GMT References: <832@argon.UUCP> <1096@icus.islp.ny.us> Reply-To: lenny@icus.islp.ny.us (Lenny Tropiano) Organization: ICUS Software Systems, Islip, New York Lines: 22 In article william_j_carpenter@ATT.COM (Bill Carpenter) writes: |>lenny> I don't know how they work, or if they work at all. I'm not |>lenny> fortunate to own (or work with) a 630 terminal... but the |>lenny> xt-layers, and appropriate drivers was already ported to the |>lenny> UNIX pc. You'll find it part of the 3.51 Development Set |> |>Now for the quasi-bad news. You can't dial into your UNIXpc on ph0/1 |>and run layers. I forget the exact failure mode, but I think "layers" |>claimed ph1 wasn't a tty. ("Oh, yeah? Sez who?") |> [...] You might *try* to link /dev/phN to /dev/ttyphN. I've seen programs that strncmp(ttydevice, "/dev/tty", 8) to check for the validity of the tty devices. I don't know if this is *one* of those :-> -Lenny -- | Lenny Tropiano ICUS Software Systems lenny@icus.islp.ny.us | | {ames,pacbell,decuac,hombre,sbcs,attctc}!icus!lenny attmail!icus!lenny | +------- ICUS Software Systems -- PO Box 1; Islip Terrace, NY 11752 -------+