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From: skay@ripley.read.tasc.com (Scott P. Kay)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd,comp.unix.solaris
Subject: Terminal emulation from serial port for SunOS 4.1.3 - How?
Date: 14 Nov 1995 22:27:01 GMT
Organization: TASC
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Hi all,

  I have a Sparc IPC machine with two serial ports and have hooked up
the output from a HIPPI networking card which previously went to a
dumb terminal. The dumb terminal worked great but I need logging. So
now that I have everything hooked up I tried "cat < /dev/ttya" for
serial port A, and then remotely forced the board to generate some
output. Low and behold it worked fine (except I get an extra <CR>
between each line). When I tried "cat > /dev/ttya" from another xterm
and tried to dump a board register I got nothing on the output (which
should have dumped the contents of the register).  My question is how
to I set up a terminal emulation session off of /dev/ttya? Can I do
this with TIP or could I do it directly through an xterm? I have to
beleive there's a simple way to do this.

Any help would be greatly appreciated.

-Scott

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			      Scott Kay
			      TASC, Inc.
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