kleonard@gvlv2.GVL.Unisys.COM (Ken Leonard) (11/10/89)
kmadsen@EBay.Sun.COM (Kent Madsen - WWFO Systems) asked... > How do you connect your pc, using mush, to your vax? Is that something tat > that is vax-specific, or is the capability present in unix in general? ---- it's a general *NIX capability... -- I happen to have a local (non-modem) connection to a terminal port selector on our local ethernet, which gets me to a vax terminal port, but a modem hookup or PClone-on-ethernet comm-port hook would do just as well. -- Mush includes the <uuio> module from (I think) "UUPC", but I have UUPC anyhow and use it's "original" <uuio>. -- I also have "PROCOMM" communications-general-doer-of-goodstuff. -- I have a PROCOMM command script which gets me thru the port selector, and which could just as well handle a modem or hooked-ethernet connection. It gets me to the point where UNIX prompts 'login:', and then invokes UUIO to the vax. -- UUIO's <systems> file (like real UUCP's <L.sys>) takes over at that point and logs me in to <uucico> on the vax. In _addition_ to my "regular" login-id on the vax (which is _not_ actually required, but I use it for other things) I exist as a UUCP-node under another id, which is *NIX normal procedure. -- UUIO does the up- and down-transfer of UUCP traffic with the vax, then signs off. -- Then I simply start up MUSH to read and respond and write my mail. -- The whole PROCOMM/UUIO/UUPC/UUCP thingie runs _in_a_window_ under my Windows/386, and runs quite nicely in background at 9600 bps on the commlink. -- And MUSH, itself, runs quite nicely _either_ in a window or full-screen under Windows/386. -- And I use CommandPost with my Windows so the whole exchange process fires off with exactly two mouse clicks or two keystrokes, as does the entire MUSH run to handle the mail. -- I think I'll post this whole msg also to the newsgroup, since there may be other interested folk. If I get a few more responses, I'll maybe post the config-setup-control files I use, too. ------------ regardz, Ken