At 11:41 AM 4/12/2007, Ethan Dicks wrote:
Hmm... sounds like what the Amiga did out of the box
with a "newcli
<AUX:" I used to hang a VT220 off of my Amiga and read e-mail and
NetNews (aquired via UUCP and read off-line) while my flatmate played
"Silent Service".
I seem to remember doing it in both directions between PC and Amiga,
with Pro-YAM delivering a good command line over the serial port.
On the Amiga side, wasn't there a better alternative than 'newcli'?
I also remember having either the PC or the Amiga answer the modem,
then let me into the command line on either machine when I was
on the road. When I was debugging PC programs, I'd use a debugging
printf() that spit out the serial port, which I'd watch on the
adjacent Amiga screen.
- John