Re: Login terminal via midi.

[Dancer <dancer@ozspace.brisnet.org.au>]

On Mon, 13 Feb 1995, Jochen Junker wrote:

> > 
> > 
> > 	Ok, I've got MiNTNet set up, and as tested as I can, until my 
> > sysop gets back, and instatiates the slip account for me to connect to.
> > 
> > Query: I have two ST's here, one of which only has a single DSDD floppy, 
> > and 1MB of ram. I'd like to be able to use that to log in to Mintos on 
> > the main machine and run basically as a terminal.
> > 
> > I've tried some fiddling with getty, but haven't had any luck. The system 
> > seems to get confused about what machine it's supposed be doing I/O with.
> > 
> >
> 
> I do not say exactly what you've done with getty. On the Terminal ST you 
> have to start a program that does the I/O on the channel you what to
> connect it. I've done it with midi. I also have a program that handels 
> the I/O via midi for a terminal. 
> 
> On the main machine you have to start getty -hwired, telling getty
> not to dial. Then you have to define the terminal type. With my
> STs, both MEGA 4, it works fine.
> 
> If it doesn't help you I can email you my init files and so on.
> 
> Jochen
> 
> 

	Got it! I did the following:

sh < /dev/midi | cat > /dev/midi &

	Doing it, without the pipe through 'cat' doesn't work properly, 
and the machine just locks up after a while.


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