On Thursday, July 29, 1999 12:47 PM, Matt [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] wrote:
: I have an old 286 that's just collecting dust, but if I could use ELKS and
: minicom then I'd have a nice little terminal. Can ELKS run minicom? It
: says it has serial IO support.
:
: Matt
:
What's minicom?
ELKS should have no problem running a terminal emulator. The serial
stuff now works fine, and the console supports most ANSI and VT52 escape sequences
that are needed to become an emulator.
It's a relative no-brainer to write a select() driven terminal emulator
for elks that uses pass-thru for the sequences to the ansi console. The only
drawback would be no screen refresh after popping a shell. If screen refresh
is wanted, the ansi stuff can be pulled from the console code and kept in
the emulator to keep vscreen contents current.
If someone really wants, I'll write the framework for a serial
terminal emulator that will work as an TERM=ansi front end.
Greg
