28 May
2009
28 May
'09
2:57 p.m.
On Thursday 28 May 2009, dwight elvey wrote:
Hi
I still prefer using a laptop and a ternimal emulator.
It leaves me the option of dumping or uploading files
to disk. Sometimes I just want to log what I've been
doing.
It is a little more difficult as the newer laptops don't
have serial ports and the os doesn't allow direct access
to the prots. Still many older laptops will boot a dos
disk.
Even Dell still sells one or two models with a physical serial port, and
it's pretty easy to find a laptop that'll boot an OS that has a USB
stack these days. It's also nice to have something with a decent
tcp/ip stack, to scp the logged console output around (or files to
Xmodem transfer to/from the device you're connected to).
The problem, of course, is finding terminal emulation software that'll
emulate weird terminal types (non VT100/ANSI emulation). That's what I
see Bob's VT-6 thing as being useful (though I'd prefer just having a
POSIX / ANSI C (or Perl, Python, Java, C++, etc) implementation myself,
which I can run under the OS of my choice).
Pat
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