Re: Use //c to show ftp weather from Bureau of Meteorology

[datajerk <datajerk@gmail.com>]

On Jun 29, 2:48 am, phil <pjwy...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Wow what lively discussion!
> I have borrowed a BF 430 serial server box from a friend at work to
> join to my LAN, and hope to use modem MGR or whatever is the best
> choice from Asimov on the //c.
> Will buy a les2700a serial server from ebay as suggested, this really
> looks like the best option: tried Cygwin and it doesn't recognise
> "getty" being typed into the cli. I'm not very good with unix.
> I gather I must make up a serial lead just like athttp://adtpro.sourceforge.net/connectionsserial.htmlbut with TxD and
> RxD swapped on one end to not have a null cable.
> Any suggestions are appreciated. I'll let you know my progress. Thanks
> again.

It's actually agetty.

Reinstall Cygwin, then at the Select Packages dialog select the
following packages by clicking on the circular arrow to change from
skip to binary install:

Admin/cygrunsrv
Editor/vim
System/util-linux
System/sysvinit

After the install double click the Cygwin icon on your desktop and
type:

init-config -y

Then edit /etc/inittab and enable agetty, e.g. using COM3: as serial
port at 9600 BPS:

echo S2:2345:respawn:/usr/sbin/agetty ttyS2 9600 vt100 >>/etc/inittab

Then type:

net start init

You should have a login out the serial port.