Hooking up a terminal to a com port.

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From: SHAKER Kamal
Date: Tue, 30 Aug 1994 01:42

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Soon I'll be getting a VT220 terminal, and I want to set it up
on my COM4 so I can login to uni and read news or other text mode 
stuff, while the rest of the family can be using the machine for
games or work. So, how would I go about doing this?


Thanks, Kamal.
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