On Thu, Apr 27, 2017 at 6:34 PM, Brian White <[email protected]> wrote:
> Working way too hard on these serial cables. > > Monoprice 479 works with no adapters, and any old usb adapter you want, > cheap pl2302 no-name are fine, and dlplus on linux is not merely free but > small and minimal requirements to build or run. > > The only thing that cable isn't good for is HTERM, because that cable > loops back rts/cts, but HTERM is the only software anywhere that even uses > rts/cts on a M100. > > Well, he is communicating to a Linux box. That's why I mentioned HTERM, but if you're not using the model T as a terminal, maybe not all that interesting. But I don't know why you'd by a null modem cable that doesn't swap RTS and CTS? > What I don't know is, maybe laddie alpha or one of the other tpdd servers > has more/better/different features than dlplus. > > For instance, subdirectories? Fake sector-level access aka disk images? > Ability to copy and then restore the full utility disk image? (well, I know > none of them have that or else we would have downloadable utility disk > images) I don't know what other possible features might exist, I just > assume that different tpdd servers probably have different features just > like different dos's do. > > Yes. I don't think I added subdirectories to DLPlus. Also, I don't think I implemented the SEEK (random access) extension, or safer no-crash .BA/.DO handling. I maintain both DLPlus and LaddieAlpha, but since LaddieAlpha is cross platform I only spend time on it, if any. -- John.
