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-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Mark Harvey wrote: > Many thanfs for the info. > > I have now installed minicom - but I still cannot get it to talk to the modem > (USR Sportster 33.6 external on the first serial port). It also does not > support Wyse60 (I'm not sure that that was what was meant - I was listening > to instructions over the 'phone - sounded like 'y60' to me but that is > close!). I have /dev/modem linked to the relevant serial device, this is considered "bad form" in some circles as these applications use little lock files in /var/lock/ to avoid both using the same serial port. But for as long as you know where the lock files are and why they are there or always use /dev/modem...... lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 5 May 15 2000 /dev/modem -> ttyS0 I think Minicom assumes it wil talk to /dev/modem. You can change the settings in Minicom with Ctrl-A O, and pick the serial port settings option (Ctrl-A Z is your friend). Try "wy60" for Wyse 60. Does it really require Wyse 60? Try the application with something more common like VT100 under Minicom. Most apps are written in a terminal independent form so only care that the terminal settings are correct, little errors can be most annoying, not what terminal you have for as lon as it is "featured" enough. I don't think many of the Wyse emulators actually implement all the facilities of a Wyse 60 terminal, but I guess all you need is one that is as good as the Windows emulator others are using? I think you'd have to use Kermit with Wy60, at least I'm not sure that Minicom will work correctly so a command line tools is probably better for this. > I hope I don't have to resort to a windows solution - I get fed up with having > to use it at work! A Windows solution to get a dumb terminal emulation - I'd be very surprised - this is back to the days of Unix, I'm sure there is a simple solution you just have to find it. Heck we used free Unix terminal emulation software to emulate IBM graphics terminals, and it was better than using the actual terminals ;-), inspite of IBM's MVS TCP/IP implementation being so bad people were still selling competing implementations. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQE/J4pHGFXfHI9FVgYRAr3fAJ9038wTLSrq/dJXrrKeG38PF674wQCcDmQs EuahGB2apiMcezQThgcjo3A= =yNlr -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- The Mailing List for the Devon & Cornwall LUG Mail majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxx with "unsubscribe list" in the message body to unsubscribe.