Re: Connecting //c as Dumb Terminal to OS X

[The Wizard of Oz <wizard@emeraldcity.gov>]

On Tue, 01 Jun 2004 15:07:12 +0000, Stephen Adams wrote:

> Hi folks.
> 
> Has anyone got any suggestions on where I can look for information that 
> will allow me to connect my //c to my G4 tower running Mac OS X 10.2? 
> Has anyone in this group even taken on such a challenge?
> 
> The tower has 4 real serial ports installed and they work with OS X just 
> fine. A few years back, when I had some x86 machines with Linux lying 
> around, I managed to set up the "getty" in Linux to accept the //c as a 
> dumb terminal. However, I don't see any "getty" in Mac OS X, nor do I 
> find the "rc.serial" scripts or anything that remotely looks like them.
> 
> Right now, the //c talks to OS X by way of a Mac OS X GUI-based terminal 
> program that I execute from my user space in OS X. It works for simple 
> file transfers but I ultimately would like to be able to log into my //c 
>   and, using the G4 to provide shell services, use the Internet directly 
> from the //c.
> 
> Any ideas on where to look would be appreciated. Thanks!
> 
> Steve

	On the //c side try something like Proterm. 

	I would have thought the process on the Mac was identical to Linux since
OS X is *NIX based. Perhaps (since you have everything else working
already) you may want to see if you can find an FAQ or HOWTO for OS X on
serial connections. Once you are connected it SHOULD be easy.

				Later
				Mike