Serial monitor progress

[Jim <jim@magrathea.plus.com>]

I've made some progress on the 'Apple2 as a serial console' and here are the
screenshots to prove it:

<http://www.ursaminorbeta.co.uk/AppleSecLog1.jpg>
<http://www.ursaminorbeta.co.uk/AppleSecLog2.jpg>

What I'm doing here is piping the output from my FreeBSD server (after
suitably tweaking it) to the serial port. The command running on the server
is:

tail -n 1 -F /var/log/security|awk '{sub(/:.*$/,"", $10); sub(/^.*:/,"",
$11); print $1, $2, $3, $10, $11}' > /dev/cuad0

What this does is take a line from the security log which normally looks
like this (should be all on one line):

Oct  4 14:51:17 wotan kernel: ipfw: 65435 Deny TCP 212.119.162.40:2156
192.168.2.2:135 in via rl0

and tweaks it to look like this:

Oct 4 14:51:17 212.119.162.40 135

in order to fit on a 40col screen. It's showing the source IP and the
destination TCP port.

At 300 baud.

With a wee dumb comms programme running on the //e that includes a PEEK that
clicks the speaker after every character received.

Stupid, but cool.

Jim
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