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- From: d4frodo@dtek.chalmers.se (Fredrik S|renson)
- Newsgroups: aus.computers.amiga,comp.sys.amiga.hardware
- Subject: Re: Using a terminal on an Amiga?
- Date: 6 Jan 1996 18:16:27 GMT
- Organization: Chalmers University of Technology
- Message-ID: <4cme9r$cb8@nyheter.chalmers.se>
- References: <4ca0u8$qoq@metro.ucc.su.OZ.AU> <639.6575T1264T2965@alaska.net>
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- In article <639.6575T1264T2965@alaska.net>,
- Mitch Thompson <mitcht@alaska.net> wrote:
- >Hello, Alex Maddison,
- >> Hello,
- >
- >> A friend of mine said that it was possible to plug a VT100 terminal into
- >> an Amiga 2000 and use it (presumably) to access the Amiga CLI, via the
- >
- >Not in the parallel port!!!!! In the serial port. Yes, with some utilities off
-
- You are correct here, it's the serial port, not the parallell.
-
- >of Aminet, you can have a shell on a VT100 terminal connected to your SERIAL
- >port.
- >
- >On Aminet:
- >
- >AuxHandler.lha comm/misc 36K 447+Dos handler to use CLI via serial port.
- >
- >should do it.
- >
- But now you are saying funny things. The Auxhandler did come free with my
- 1.3 500, and all that was required was to connect the terminal (you know,
- nullmodem to the serial port) and then write
-
- 1> newshell aux:
-
- This is stated in my very first Amiga "manual" (it wasn't really, it was just
- a book that mostly dealt with the keyboard, the mouse and the Workbench. But
- it did tell how to connect a terminal to the Amiga.)
-
- I don't follow this group that often but I do know that this question should be
- put in some sort of FAQ.
-
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