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hardware serial terminal under dos
Name: dan_g Date: December 6, 2005 at 23:40:07 Pacific OS: dos CPU/Ram: 386sx/25
Comment:
hello! i have a wyse wy-50 serial terminal and i want to know how to use it as i/o device instead of the standard keyboard/monitor. i connected it to the serial port of the computer running dos, but i don't know how to redirect i/o operations to it. thanks!
Name: LinuxOS2 Date: December 7, 2005 at 07:02:30 Pacific
Reply:
If I remember right a file that will do what you want was called "IBMAUX" and I think the author was maybe Northern Light BBS, I just looked for a copy of it in my archives with no luck but I bet if you dig deep enough on the web you will find a copy, worked like a champ and used little memory, If you get it working let us know.......
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