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kmadsen@EBay.Sun.COM (Kent Madsen - WWFO Systems) asked...
> How do you connect your pc, using mush, to your vax?  Is that something tat
> that is vax-specific, or is the capability present in unix in general?
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it's a general *NIX capability...
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I happen to have a local (non-modem) connection to a terminal port selector
on our local ethernet, which gets me to a vax terminal port, but a modem
hookup or PClone-on-ethernet comm-port hook would do just as well.
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Mush includes the <uuio> module from (I think) "UUPC", but I have UUPC anyhow
and use it's "original" <uuio>.
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I also have "PROCOMM" communications-general-doer-of-goodstuff.
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I have a PROCOMM command script which gets me thru the port selector,
and which could just as well handle a modem or hooked-ethernet connection.
It gets me to the point where UNIX prompts 'login:', and then invokes
UUIO to the vax.
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UUIO's <systems> file (like real UUCP's <L.sys>) takes over at that point
and logs me in to <uucico> on the vax.  In _addition_ to my "regular"
login-id on the vax (which is _not_ actually required, but I use it for
other things) I exist as a UUCP-node under another id, which is *NIX
normal procedure.
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UUIO does the up- and down-transfer of UUCP traffic with the vax, then
signs off.
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Then I simply start up MUSH to read and respond and write my mail.
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The whole PROCOMM/UUIO/UUPC/UUCP thingie runs _in_a_window_ under my
Windows/386, and runs quite nicely in background at 9600 bps on the
commlink.
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And MUSH, itself, runs quite nicely _either_ in a window or full-screen
under Windows/386.
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And I use CommandPost with my Windows so the whole exchange process fires off
with exactly two mouse clicks or two keystrokes, as does the entire
MUSH run to handle the mail.
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I think I'll post this whole msg also to the newsgroup, since there
may be other interested folk.  If I get a few more responses, I'll
maybe post the config-setup-control files I use, too.
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regardz,
Ken