Using DECmate III from terminal

That depends on what you mean by "possible". The DECmate II and (I presume, although I've not played with one) the III use Harris I/O support chips. The first thing you need to do to these chips after power-on is to configure their address. Consequently, there's a table of IOTs executed by the processor straight out of reset to get the job done. It should be possible to switch the addresses configured for the console port and the printer port in that table. The effect would be that the printer port would now be the console port and the terminal emulation in the slushware would now run the printer port. No, I've not tried this. Furthermore, every time I mention the possibility some pretty knowledgeable folks usually tell me it won't work. I don't see why it won't work. BTW, does anyone have a good archive of Lasner's rantings? We really need a good Lasner rantings archive somewhere on the net. -- Roger Ivie rivie(a)teraglobal.com Not speaking for TeraGlobal Communications Corporation