Re: IIgs to Network via Linux

[supertimer@aol.com (Supertimer)]

phoenyx <phoenyx@texas.net> wrote:

>Supertimer wrote:
>
>> Warren Anthony Stramiello <gte704i@acmey.gatech.edu> wrote:
>>
>> >I'm trying to set up my IIgs to connect to my Linux box, and from there
>> >into the network... How would I go about doing this? I'm thinking I need
>> >to set up the linux box to accept logins via the serial and lpt ports...
>> >but what do I need to do from the IIgs side?
>>
>> A terminal program supporting VT100.  http://www.intrec.com/
>> has ProTERM 3.1, which is great for this.  It also supports zmodem
>> for file transfers.
>>
>> Or you can set up GNO/ME for the IIGS and zmodem via its
>> shell command line using the familiar sz command.
>>
>> If you want something more, there is Netatalk for Linux.  I'm not
>> sure where to get it, but it lets you set up Linux as an LocalTalk
>> server.  The IIGS can then log on using Finder and navigate files
>> and folders as if on its own hard drive.
>
>This is a bit esoteric, but the newer Linux kernels also support the
>HFS format and MAC partitions. I've used this to read MAC cd's.

That's great.  I have mostly HFS partitions on my 1GB IIGS hard
drive, so this means that if I install Linux on my Windows 95 unit
(guess I'd have to play around with PartitionMagic), I could simply
hook up my IIGS drive to my PC's SCSI chain and access my
data.  Accessing my IIGS HFS Zip disks on the PC would also
be nice.

Right now I use my Zip drive and MS-DOS formatted Zip disks to
do the transfer.  The MUG! desk accessory for the IIGS allows
it to write to the MS-DOS file system.

I still use my IIGS for word processing tasks (1 to 10 pages).  For
such tasks, booting the IIGS to GS/OS and launching the GUI
based AppleWorks GS v1.1 is faster than booting Windows 95
and besides, using the same TrueType fonts and printing to the
same ink-jet printer means the result is identical.  However, this
means I have to transfer documents (in postscript or rtf format)
once in a while between the PC and the IIGS.