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Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.development Path: sserve!manuel.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!constellation!osuunx.ucc.okstate.edu!moe.ksu.ksu.edu!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!pacific.mps.ohio-state.edu!linac!uchinews!att-out!cbnewsj!dwex From: dwex@cbnewsj.cb.att.com (david.e.wexelblat) Subject: Re: SOLUTION: X over serial line Organization: AT&T Date: Fri, 5 Mar 1993 16:18:30 GMT Message-ID: <1993Mar5.161830.4391@cbnewsj.cb.att.com> References: <1993Feb28.171424.19703@netcom.com> Lines: 66 In article <1993Feb28.171424.19703@netcom.com> hasty@netcom.com (Amancio Hasty Jr) writes: > Hi, > > Jon Tombs from the unix group was kind to point me out to "term" which > was developed under linux (i think). > > term acts like a usr mode tcp stack and it communicates with another > term over a serial line. > > the package comes with a couple of clients one of them is txconn > which allows xclients on the remote host to be displayed on your > local system. > > I compiled term105 both on my 386bsd and on my sparc 2 over at work. > the program seems to work. > > By no means term105 is optimal, so I encourage others to enhance it. > > o a good addition could be interfacing term to seyon if it has not been > done already. please note that seyon interfaces to rz and it has the > capability to auto-detect downloads. > > I moved term105.tar.Z to sunvis.rtpnc.epa.gov:/pub/386bsd/incoming > > > Have fun, > Amancio > > -- > This message brought to you by the letters X and S and the number 3 > Amancio Hasty | > Home: (415) 495-3046 | ftp-site depository of all my work: > e-mail hasty@netcom.com | sunvis.rtpnc.epa.gov:/pub/386bsd/incoming I'd just like to make people aware that 'term' is no longer being developed. The author, Michael O'Reilly, is hard at work on the follow-on to 'term', which will be called 'slap' (serial line access protocol). It will have lots of changes to help address the user interface issues. Not to tell people that they shouldn't hack on 'term', only that it is perhaps best to wait for 'slap' to see if it resolves your problems. There is a package called 'fet' (front end for term) that deals with dialup/login/init. It runs under Linux, and I've ported it to SVR4 and enhanced it greatly. I will make this availble soon. The X performance with 'term' is usable, but not great. We (me and Mike O'Reilly) have been having some initial talks with Jim Fulton, who is heading the Low Bandwidth X project for X11R6. Current plans call for LBX to run only on top of a reliable network conneciton (e.g. CSLIP, PPP). We have piqued their interest in using 'slap' for non-network connections. Nothing has been decided yet. If we don't get it done for the LBX core contribution, there are several member of the XFree86 development team who will work to get a slap-based LBX proxy onto the contrib tape. All of this is to let people who are considering hacking on 'term' know what's going on. I certainly encourage anyone and everyone to get 'term' and play with it, and send your comments to Mike O'Reilly. I think this is one of the finest packages I've ever seen, and I'm just dying for 'slap' to get done. -- David Wexelblat <dwex@mtgzfs3.att.com> (908) 957-5871 AT&T Bell Laboratories, 200 Laurel Ave - 3F-428, Middletown, NJ 07748 "In and around the lake, mountains come out of the sky. They stand there." -- Yes, Roundabout