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From: hasty@netcom.com (Amancio Hasty Jr)
Subject: Re: SOLUTION: X over serial line
Message-ID: <1993Mar8.081919.2429@netcom.com>
Organization: Netcom Online Communications Services (408-241-9760 login: guest)
References: <1993Feb28.171424.19703@netcom.com> <1993Mar5.161830.4391@cbnewsj.cb.att.com>
Date: Mon, 8 Mar 1993 08:19:19 GMT
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In article <1993Mar5.161830.4391@cbnewsj.cb.att.com> dwex@cbnewsj.cb.att.com (david.e.wexelblat) writes:
>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 
>> 
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>
>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.
>

Hi,
Over the last few years, I have been involved in networking, osi, tcp/ip,
xns, multi-threaded heterogenous communication servers capable
of async protocols, etc...

If anyone wants to  hack on "term"-like technology, I will be more than
happy to help out. To avoid problems with software development in an
open forum  please note that I operate openly and outside of XFree86. 


Amancio Hasty




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