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- From: jtod_ltd@uhura.cc.rochester.edu (John "Jeep" Todd)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.programmer
- Subject: Compiling Wizards? Try this one on for size.
- Summary: Need help compiling TERM099n for NeXT
- Keywords: NeXT, TERM099n, compiling, dweezil
- Message-ID: <1993Jan24.030840.10637@galileo.cc.rochester.edu>
- Date: 24 Jan 93 03:08:40 GMT
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- Organization: University of Rochester - Rochester, New York
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- I have a question regarding a program called TERM099n and it's compilation
- and running behaviour on a NeXT. This program is actually several programs
- designed to enable a person without root access or "permission" to run
- several shells at once or even several Xwindows through ONE serial line all
- at once. (Simulates ports on a single serial line - does automatic data
- compression so it's reasonably fast even over a modem) One first compiles
- the program on the "host" machine (it's standard unix stuff) and them runs a
- server program called "term". Then the client machine EXITS out of whatever
- terminal program was used to initialize the serial connection and then
- compiles/runs "term" and re-directs i/o to the serial line. EG: "term
- -s9600</dev/cua>/dev/cua" (-s9600 specified the baud) Now, I could go on
- about all the things I have done to make this little program work (and it
- really is small - 95k I think for EVERYTHING in source form) and I don't
- have any luck. I've run all the test programs that are included, and I've
- monitored the data coming in and out, all to no avail. There seems to be a
- partial connection when I initialize my end of the term here on the client
- machine, but then no shell comes up in my window. This seems like an
- INCREDIBLY useful program, since it doesn't require all the hassle of SLIP
- and it runs without needing root permission right from the user's shell. If
- some Unix/NeXT wizard finds this program useful, or just wants to give a
- non-wizard a hand, please try and re-compile this program which is found at
- archive site sunsite.unc.edu in /pub/Linux/Incoming among many places (try
- an archie on it for the most recent version). My only BIG worry is that it
- is a Linux-specific program. I don't know this for a fact, though. The
- only other person that has tried it that I know of is using Linux, and it
- works, however there is a flag to set within the program for NeXT, so I
- guess it's compatable. Also: if anyone has xcomm compiled for the NeXT, I'd
- appreciate a copy, since that's what my Linux friend uses for establishing a
- connection and I can't get it to compile on my NeXT. (My NeXT BTW: 3.0 25mhz
- Station 20megs serial line to ROLM network, full developer's package)
-
- Thank you for at least reading this.... :)
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