by Hi 'Entropy',
I once used an old PS/1 with a dead hard drive as a serial terminal. I putQuote:>My parents have an old XT that they don't want anymore, and I'd like to
>be able to hook it up to my Linux box as a dumb terminal, using a serial
>cable. Does anybody know any reasonable software (free) that I can run
>on the XT to do this, either using the serial line directly (with a
>getty) or rigging it as a PPP or SLIP connection and using some sort of
>telnet?
>TIA
>Entropy
>--
DOS and ProcommPlus on a boot floppy, ran 'agetty' on my Linux server and
connected the two with null-modem adapted serial cable. Just about any
communications software will work, my only disappointment with the arrangement
was the lack of complete keyboard remapping in ProComm.
Ed