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Conference hydra::amiga_v1

Title:AMIGA NOTES
Notice:Join us in the *NEW* conference - HYDRA::AMIGA_V2
Moderator:HYDRA::MOORE
Created:Sat Apr 26 1986
Last Modified:Wed Feb 05 1992
Last Successful Update:Fri Jun 06 1997
Number of topics:5378
Total number of notes:38326

2851.0. "2nd user on the serial port?" by LDP::GAY (Now where'd I put that hammer...) Tue Aug 22 1989 15:36

    Is there a way to run a CLI so that it will take its input from
    the serial port and send its output back to the serial port?
    
    I'd really like to hook a terminal to the serial line and get
    some C hacking done while the rest of the family is hogging the
    screen/keyboard/mouse (hey, this is supposed to be MY toy!).
    
    Thanks
    Eben Gay
    
    (I have dir/titled and cruised through the notes, but if I missed it,
    just give me a pointer)
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2851.1- AUX: SMAUG::SPODARYKSick for toys!Tue Aug 22 1989 16:376
    You either need to make use of the AUX: device available in
    WB V1.3, or Steve Drew's AUX: implementation.  Notes 486 and 1780
    deal with both.  I haven't used either, but the idea is appealing.
    I might just sign out a VT220, and check it out.
    
    ~Steve
2851.2LDP::GAYNow where'd I put that hammer...Wed Aug 23 1989 12:578
Great! 

I'll give a try and see what happens.

Thanks

Yours
Erg
2851.3Multiuser w/o additional terminalMERIDN::BARRETTWait'll they get a load of meTue Aug 29 1989 17:0022
    This may interest you -
    
    I took the serial card I have plugged into the XT slots of my A2000
    (I have the PC/XT Bridgeboard setup) and connected the amiga serial
    port to it via a null-modem cable. Did a NEWSHELL AUX: on the Amiga,
    "switched" over to the MS-DOS side, ran a communications program
    that used the CON1 port and PRESTO - I was accessing AmigaDOS from
    the PC Side!
    
    Now you may ask "why bother with such a thing"? But my answers are:
    
    1) Proved to me that it could be done.
    
    2) Allowed me to play with a multi-user Amiga setup without chugging
    home a seperate terminal.
    
    3) Should help me when I write and debug routines that need to do
    serial communications.
    
    
    o/o
     o      Keith