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- From: arb@comp.lancs.ac.uk (Andrew Brooks)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.acorn.tech
- Subject: Re: Remote Terminal - Taskwindow
- Message-ID: <1992Nov23.104401.26367@comp.lancs.ac.uk>
- Date: 23 Nov 92 10:44:01 GMT
- References: <1992Nov23.121624.12389@waikato.ac.nz>
- Organization: Department of Computing at Lancaster University, UK.
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- In article <1992Nov23.121624.12389@waikato.ac.nz> pdenize@waikato.ac.nz writes:
- >
- >I have spent the weekend attempting to hook a VT320 into the serial port and
- >then use it as a "taskwindow" while someone else uses my Archimedes desktop.
- >
- >I get the feeling that this redirection can be achieved by running a prog
- >multi-tasking on the Arch but it just seemed more difficult that I first
- >envisaged.
- >
- >Has anyone else tried this sort of thing.
-
- I wrote such a program so I could log in remotely from our workstations.
- All it required was a loop:
- 1) reading from the serial port and sending the characters in a message
- to the taskwindow
- 2) receiving messages from the taskwindow and sending the characters to
- the serial port
-
- Andrew.
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- arb@comp.lancs.ac.uk
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