pgil@sphinx.uchicago.edu (paul gilna) (07/01/88)
Does anyone with SUN 386i experience know to what extent (if any) a user logged on using a VT100 can avail of the DOS side of things. Obviously CGA display is out, but can one display purely textual output? cheers, paul gilna -- UUCP: ...!ihnp4!gargoyle!sphinx!pgil, BITNET: pgil@sphinx.UChicago.edu Analogue: (312) 702-6971 VOICE: Hullo, um, is Paul there? Just because you're paranoid, doesn't mean they're not out to get you.
gas@ecsvax.UUCP (07/13/88)
In article <4409@sphinx.uchicago.edu>, pgil@sphinx.uchicago.edu (paul gilna) writes: > Does anyone with SUN 386i experience know to what extent (if any) > a user logged on using a VT100 can avail of the DOS side of things. > Obviously CGA display is out, but can one display purely textual > output? > cheers, paul gilna I will not swear to it, BUT I have seen someone sitting at a Sun 3/50 login to a 386i and begin a DOS session. He could not doe anything but text based commands, ie DIR, etc., but it was DOS in a window on the 3/50 that was running on the 386i. Therefore I would assume that a VT100 could do the same, but TEXT ONLY. For now anyway. AGAIN, don't take this as the absolute gospel truth. That 386i is a hot machine. -- Guerry A. Semones BITNET: drogo@tucc.BITNET Information Services USENET: gas@ecsvax.UUCP, semones@dukeac.UUCP Duke University My views are despairingly mine only. Talent Identification Program "We ain't gifted, we just work here."
ljg@cfi.COM (ljg) (07/15/88)
In article <4409@sphinx.uchicago.edu> pgil@sphinx.uchicago.edu (paul gilna) writes: >Does anyone with SUN 386i experience know to what extent (if any) >a user logged on using a VT100 can avail of the DOS side of things. >Obviously CGA display is out, but can one display purely textual >output? You can invoke any dos command that does not require a "DOS Window" (ie. just gives text output) by giving the command 'dos -w <dos command>'. The output goes to stdout and you can use shell redirection or pipes on it. I'm not sure about input, though... - Lowell