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[didierj@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx (Alain Didierjean)]

Nick Zentena a écrit:

>         I'm curious what it would take to hang something off the serial port.
> My old machine is acting as a firewall for my main machine. Now I've got
> my old monitor hooked up to the machine but that monitor is on it's last
> legs. It's been dying any day now for five years-) I do have an old mac
> that would work great. Even has a vt52 term program. Basically I'm
> interested in using it for the times I can't telnet into the machine.
> Will the machine send bootup messages out the serial port? What do I
> need to get running?
>
>         Thanks
>         Nick
> --
> --------------------------------------------------
> Nick Zentena
> Microsoft software isn't good enough for microsoft.
> Why is it good enough for you?
> --------------------------------------------------

Why bother with a terminal ? What about a good ol'
> rlogin -l <user> <my_firewall>
That's the way I log on my good old Amiga UX, still working w/ a nice Sys V r4
release on a 68030.
Off course, no fancy X session hereof its own here, just running in a rxvt on the
Linux Xscreen...
Just my .02 euros :-)

C-U,
 --
A.


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