crum@utah-cs.UUCP (Gary L. Crum) (03/02/86)
By making MicroEMACS open SER: instead of RAW:, I can use a vt100 compatible
terminal connected to the serial port of an Amiga to edit files, saving the
Amiga console for other things. I've used a Macintosh running the Versaterm
terminal emulator program for this purpose. MicroEMACS does an Open() in its
ttopen() procedure, located in the termio.c file. The one obvious drawback is
that ^S and ^Q are stolen (by the SER: driver, I presume) and used for
XON/XOFF flow control. I've had to rebind the MicroEMACS functions that use
those characters.
I tried to start up a cli session on the remote terminal with the command
'newcli "SER:"', but it fails. The message "New CLI task n" is output to
the terminal, along with the"n>" prompt, but nothing works after that.
Perhaps the newcli program doesn't use read procedure calls that work with
SER:. After all, it was really intended to be run in Intuition windows.
I'm not intimately familiar with AmigaDOS; Does anyone care to explain this?
I haven't compiled any of the other cli programs; Can they be adapted
(easily) to work with the SER: device?
Gary L. Crum
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