Essentially, telling getty what kind of equipment is attached. In VMS you would not allow LOGINOUT to handle a port where something like a fax was installed. Instead you'd run the fax program, and have that handle the port. Using getty in this way can be considered either very clever, or very ugly, depending on your preferences and view on how to do things... But essentially, you'll have a getty which can do and understand a lot of different things.
I totally agree, my last modem was a lovely Nokia ECM 19200 that could be programmed from a set of button on the front panel and had a 2 line LCD screen. I set it on auto-answer, DCD/DTR correctly and all AT responses off, and plugged it into CHIMPY.
Worked like a dream until the power supply blew up.
It was 11 years old though..:)
sampsa
On 10/08/2013 08:44 AM, Sampsa Laine wrote:
I remember you calling into CHIMPY with that 2400 baud Amstrad thing,
good times.
But the Nokia 9210 is actually pretty cool, V.110 is like wireless
ISDN plus if the other side has an analogue modem, the operator has a
modem pool that converts the signal.
Ideal for this use I think (next to zero operating costs, easy
connection, flexible, can't get hit by lightning*)
* Seriously, the place in Hila has taken a few harsh hits during
storms, the electrical system was protected but the telephone wiring
wasn't, high voltage jumps from PSTN to Skype base station to switch
via ethernet, 1000+ euros damage. So we decided to take all the
telephone wiring out and just use Skype. Nobody has noticed any
difference.
The NSA noticed the difference.
-Dave
--
Dave McGuire, AK4HZ
New Kensington, PA
On 10/08/2013 08:40 AM, Joe Ferraro wrote:
Heh... this is obviously the way we did it in UNIX decades ago... I
always complained about trying to use UNIX for the very thing it
seemingly opposed (strict user controls) ...
... and we still do this; I can't keep users out of the OS an in the
app... argh...
I keep users out of OSs just fine. Need a consultant? ;)
-Dave
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Dave McGuire, AK4HZ
New Kensington, PA
On 2013-10-08 15:54, Sampsa Laine wrote:
But some UNIX getty's DO speak Hayes AT so it's not that far-fetched an idea..
So, how do the Unix getty know that there is a hayes modem on the serial line, and not a terminal?
Config files and/or command line options - some of them even know how to pass FAXES along to a fax receiving program.
Not saying this should be in VMS, just that it has existed in the real world for a long time.
Essentially, telling getty what kind of equipment is attached. In VMS you would not allow LOGINOUT to handle a port where something like a fax was installed. Instead you'd run the fax program, and have that handle the port. Using getty in this way can be considered either very clever, or very ugly, depending on your preferences and view on how to do things... But essentially, you'll have a getty which can do and understand a lot of different things.
Johnny
On 8 Oct 2013, at 16:03, Erik Olofsen <e.olofsen at xs4all.nl> wrote:
Hi all,
For those interested in Sixels, I ported the code (quick and dirty)
from ftp://ftp.cs.utk.edu/pub/shuford/terminal/all_about_sixels.txt
to Javascript and combined it with Flot and a JQuery terminal:
http://rullf2.xs4all.nl/sg/sg.html
You then get a Javascript terminal, with a display function; some examples:
js> example$
js> display(example$)
js> display(Array(5).join('CA at ACGOG'))
js> display('HECNET')
and
js> display(digital$)
Considering the run time to display the latter image, photos should
perhaps not be too detailed...
Cool - any change you could add my logo (B&W picture of angry monkey from Family Guy)?
That would totally make my day.
On 08/10/2013 14:54, Sampsa Laine wrote:
But some UNIX getty's DO speak Hayes AT so it's not that far-fetched an idea..
So, how do the Unix getty know that there is a hayes modem on the serial line, and not a terminal?
Config files and/or command line options - some of them even know how to pass FAXES along to a fax receiving program.
Not saying this should be in VMS, just that it has existed in the real world for a long time.
I have a couple of scripts which I think came from DECUS originally and there is definitely an FAQ on the subject.
I can share these for anyone who is interested (easy enough to put in the archive on SLAVE). You can guarantee you will need to do some tweaking however!
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Hi all,
For those interested in Sixels, I ported the code (quick and dirty)
from ftp://ftp.cs.utk.edu/pub/shuford/terminal/all_about_sixels.txt
to Javascript and combined it with Flot and a JQuery terminal:
http://rullf2.xs4all.nl/sg/sg.html
You then get a Javascript terminal, with a display function; some examples:
js> example$
js> display(example$)
js> display(Array(5).join('CA at ACGOG'))
js> display('HECNET')
and
js> display(digital$)
Considering the run time to display the latter image, photos should
perhaps not be too detailed...
Erik
PS: For now, palette[0] is used to set the background color.
On Tue, Oct 08, 2013 at 02:55:19PM +0200, Sampsa Laine wrote:
On 8 Oct 2013, at 14:52, Johnny Billquist <bqt at softjar.se> wrote:
The second part of this is actually making the files visible in the specific library. For this users need write access to the directory (and possibly extend access). In order to find the files, you need read access. For removing files from a directory, you need write access to the directory.
So obviously, you either allow both entering and removing, or neither.
That's what I ended up doing, I trust there aren't too many griefers on HECnet that'll go and delete random files.
But seriously, if you find something cool or want to post an image of yourself, send it to CHIMPY:[.DROPBOX]. I've got a few alpha EXEs up there and a couple of pics of myself in SIXEL and JPEG formats..
sampsa
But some UNIX getty's DO speak Hayes AT so it's not that far-fetched an idea..
So, how do the Unix getty know that there is a hayes modem on the serial line, and not a terminal?
Config files and/or command line options - some of them even know how to pass FAXES along to a fax receiving program.
Not saying this should be in VMS, just that it has existed in the real world for a long time.
On Tue, 08 Oct 2013 15:17:21 +0200, Sampsa Laine wrote:
As far as I know VMS doesn't really speak Hayes AT.
The only example of VMS speaking Hayes I know of is when using SET HOST/DTE
with something like a /MODEM=xxx qualifier and the corresponding user-provided
DTE_xxx.EXE in SYS$LIBRARY. See SYS$EXAMPLES:DTE* for more information. :)
OpenVMS VAX V7.2 has a couple DTE_*.MAR sample files, while OpenVMS Alpha V8.3
has a nice DTE_AT.C dialer. Maybe other versions have others and if I'm not
wrong there should be something quite useful in the DECUS libraries too...
HTH, :)
G.
Would you expect VMS to spew out hayes commands when you connect a
terminal?
Actually the VMS dialer interface is well documented (isn't all of VMS
like that??) and long, long ago I wrote a dialer for Hayes modems. It lets
you use the SET HOST/DTE/DIAL=... command with Hayes compatible modems.
If you really need it I could probably find a copy.
Bob
