At 22:10 -0400 on 29/08/01, Tracy Keirns wrote:
>I found a box, unopened, of Versa Term software. Includes disks, manuals,
>etc. What uses are there for a terminal emulator? I seem to be kind of
You can hook two Macs together through their serial ports with it (and a
cable); you can use a Mac as a *nix console; you can control various bits
of hardware with serial configuration modes (like routers and such). Lotsa
uses, most of them esoteric and archaic but still uses.
p
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