On Tuesday 04 June 2019 03:28:40 am andy pugh wrote: > On Tue, 4 Jun 2019 at 03:41, Gene Heskett <[email protected]> wrote: > > screen? > > > > Not in this case although it cam mimic the screens the coco can do > > if you want it to. > > I am not sure I understand the answer.
Meaning it can export the coco's native terminal screens to the linux box, and you can do anything just as if you were in front of its own monitor and keyboard. > Serial comms is a pretty fundamental thing. You should see a whole > load of ports in /dev > And screen should let you use them. > > https://manpages.debian.org/stretch/screen/screen.1.en.html > > Amongst the things it can do is a simple serial terminal > > screen /dev/tty0 > (or whatever) I had to install it, works only for root and didn't connect to /dev/ttyUSB0, as in no response. Ran the man page to see what its options might be, but no keyboard respone to anything I typed, finally gave up and killed the session from the consoles pulldown. /dev/ttyUSB0 s/b an fdti adapter, connected to a live seriel port on the coco at 9600 baud. Is device /t2 on the coco's os. Except on checking, its connected directly to the only db9 port on the back of this motherboard. No usb adapter. Humm, after running stty a couple times, screen now works for me, but still no response to anything typed. And had to kill it by killing the tab session. man screen shows no way to exit cleanly, so I'm not impressed with it. Minicom at least has a quit sequence. Probably have to run it as root anyway since someone has apparently decreed the user, even first user, isn't to be trusted to do anything. like access a hardware port. The paranoia among the folks in charge of security knows no limits. Even root can't do anything that uses a gui unless you add: =================== # restore sound at every terminal start since starting x shuts it off. # I think in starting tde, but tde denies it. But if I even want a # console bell for sound: /usr/sbin/alsactl restore 2>1 >/dev/null # now, let others such as root actually use the x-server xhost + ===================== to ones .bashrc. Such BS, and the lack of help on the mailing lists for such simple shit is getting old. Then I am forced to go & buy a win10 machine to do a job and finding out what microsoft thinks of their user is downright insulting. They are their own worst enemy. I better go get the missus some coffee and breakfast. Cheers, Gene Heskett -- "There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order." -Ed Howdershelt (Author) Genes Web page <http://geneslinuxbox.net:6309/gene> _______________________________________________ Emc-users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users
