using 800XL as terminal to UNIX: help needed

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2 total messages Started by Kim Wallen {Psychology} Mon, 26 Nov 1984 01:56

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Author: Kim Wallen {Psychology}
Date: Mon, 26 Nov 1984 01:56

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I am trying to use an 800XL as a terminal using the APX program
"Chameleon" and an R: handler from AID ("R-verter") to communicate
through a Rixon 212 modem.  The software commmunicates perfectly with
the Rixon, dials the Unix system I work on, but when I establish
contact with the remote system I no longer get CR with LF and the
screen switches back and forth between normal and reverse video.
In addition, all control characters print rather than execute.

Does anyone have experience with the "chameleon" terminal emulation
package?  Do I have to buy an Atari 850 interface to make it work.
(Will it work if I get one).

Does anyone have an alternative terminal emulation package for this
combination?

Thanks

Kim Wallen
Psychology Dept.
Emory University
Atlanta, GA 30322

(404) 329-4125

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Re: using 800XL as terminal to UNIX: help needed

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Author: Guy Finney
Date: Wed, 28 Nov 1984 19:21

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I've used Chameleon before, but with an 800 (sans XL) and 850 box.
It worked exactly as advertised, right out of the proverbial box.
There were one or two things I didn't like about it, though, so
I uploaded the source to UNIX, changed it to my liking, and ran
it through our cross-assembler.  My main gripe was the silly
BASIC preamble.  I replaced it with an assembler routine.
Perhaps I have an older version, though.  I didn't keep up with
whether or not he put out another version when he went to work
for Atari (boy I'll bet he was pissed at getting laid off).

When you say:

> In addition, all control characters print rather than execute.

That doesn't sound like any Chameleon I had.  Mine (the original,
not my modified version), passes all characters through and uses
the OPTION, SELECT, and START keys for the functions it provides.

Guy Finney (decvax!hao!noao!terak!anasazi!guy)
ex-Atari owner

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