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  1. Newsgroups: aus.computers.amiga,comp.sys.amiga.hardware
  2. Path: news2.new-york.net!NewsWatcher!user
  3. From: fmlazar@ritz.mordor.com (Frank Lazar)
  4. Subject: Re: Using a terminal on an Amiga?
  5. Distribution: inet
  6. X-Nntp-Posting-User: fmlazar
  7. Organization: AMUSE-New York Amiga Users Group
  8. Message-ID: <fmlazar-0201960042450001@10.0.12.15>
  9. References: <4ca0u8$qoq@metro.ucc.su.OZ.AU>
  10. X-Nntp-Posting-Host: ritz.mordor.com
  11. Date: Tue, 2 Jan 1996 05:42:44 GMT
  12.  
  13. In article <4ca0u8$qoq@metro.ucc.su.OZ.AU>, amaddiso@extro.ucc.su.OZ.AU
  14. (Alex Maddison) wrote:
  15.  
  16. > Hello,
  17. > 
  18. > A friend of mine said that it was possible to plug a VT100 terminal into 
  19. > an Amiga 2000 and use it (presumably) to access the Amiga CLI, via the 
  20. > parallel port. Apparently, the terminal input/output requires a device 
  21. > driver - does anyone have any information on this? What type of device 
  22. > driver is required?
  23. > 
  24.  
  25.  
  26.  Not parallel, serial.  The amiga in question needs to have the AUX:
  27. device mounted, other than that, that's it.  You should know however that
  28. effectively you're restricted to programs that give all output on the
  29. command line, there's no way to respond to any Intuition gadgets via aux:
  30.  
  31.  
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  41. |       |Frank Lazar  fmlazar@ritz.mordor.com|                   \\   |
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