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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!cs.utexas.edu!uunet!decwrl!netcomsv!netcom.com!hasty 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 Lines: 82 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 >> >> -- >> 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. > 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 -- 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