dpd00609@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu (06/21/89)
I Figured out what happened... I typed "tty" and the terminal thought it was /dev/lp. It turns out the fellow before me had experimented with using an Imagewriter as a line printer and had linked /dev/lp to /dev/ttya. lpd and getty were fighting each other for control of the port. It would seem that too many system adminstrators spoil the OS! Thanks to Nick Katz for responding, (by the way, ports a or b work equally well) I haven't heard ANYTHING about AppleTalk. David Doudna, Soft Med
dpd00609@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu (07/22/89)
I'm having a strange problem that maybe someone can help with. (what NeXT problem isn't strange?) We used a Mac printer cable (null modem) to connect a Mac SE running a terminal emulator to one of the NeXT serial ports. We edited a line in /etc/ttys and logged in without much problem. But for some reason the TERM/TERMCAP variables were getting set to be a "dumb" terminal instead of "vt100" as specified in the /etc/ttys line. Even more perplexing is the fact that when I enter "w" or "who", users on a remote terminal don't even show up! So if the MegaPixel console is logged out and I log on via the serial port according to "who", nobody's logged on at all. P.S. I know that Ethernet is the big thing right now, but our end product calls for low-cost low-level-protocol networking. The NeXT has the right serial chip and connector (Z8530 SCC, mini-DIN8); has anyone heard of trying to get AppleTalk (at least link access protocol) on the NeXT? Thanx in advance, David Doudna, Soft Med dpd00609@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu