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Article #585Re: Remote Terminal - Taskwindow
From: Andrew Brooks
Date: Mon, 23 Nov 1992 10:44
Date: Mon, 23 Nov 1992 10:44
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In article <1992Nov23.121624.12389@waikato.ac.nz> pdenize@waikato.ac.nz writes: > >I have spent the weekend attempting to hook a VT320 into the serial port and >then use it as a "taskwindow" while someone else uses my Archimedes desktop. > >I get the feeling that this redirection can be achieved by running a prog >multi-tasking on the Arch but it just seemed more difficult that I first >envisaged. > >Has anyone else tried this sort of thing. I wrote such a program so I could log in remotely from our workstations. All it required was a loop: 1) reading from the serial port and sending the characters in a message to the taskwindow 2) receiving messages from the taskwindow and sending the characters to the serial port Andrew. -- arb@comp.lancs.ac.uk
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!sparky!uunet!pipex!warwick!uknet!dcl-cs!arb From: arb@comp.lancs.ac.uk (Andrew Brooks) Newsgroups: comp.sys.acorn.tech Subject: Re: Remote Terminal - Taskwindow Message-ID: <1992Nov23.104401.26367@comp.lancs.ac.uk> Date: 23 Nov 92 10:44:01 GMT References: <1992Nov23.121624.12389@waikato.ac.nz> Organization: Department of Computing at Lancaster University, UK. Lines: 21