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From: pete@wlbr.UUCP
Newsgroups: comp.sys.m6809
Subject: Re: os9 l2 as terminal
Message-ID: <1029@wlbr.UUCP>
Date: Tue, 26-May-87 19:27:35 EDT
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Posted: Tue May 26 19:27:35 1987
Date-Received: Thu, 28-May-87 04:23:26 EDT
References: <1987May22.125611.16647@gpu.utcs.toronto.edu>
Reply-To: pete@wlbr.UUCP (0000-Pete Lyall)
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In article <1987May22.125611.16647@gpu.utcs.toronto.edu> ac@gpu.utcs.toronto.edu (Mark Acfield) writes:
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> The last few days I have been trying to use my COCO3 with OS9 level II as
>a terminal. I have a couple of questions as a result:
>
>1) Has anyone done a TERMCAP for the level II windows?
Mark Sunderlin (also on the net at ..!ihnp4!chinet!megabyte, I
believe) had some termcap stuff for wordpak I ande II. Variations
on these should work fine.
>
>2) Has anyone done a MAP3270 (for tn3270) for the above?
I haven't heard of one.
>3) It was reported once that erase to end of screen on the second to last line
> of an 80 x 24 window failed to clear the last line. Was this ever confirmed?
> Has a bypass been found?
I believe some of the OS9 Forum hackers are working on this as well.
No resolution to date.
>
>4) It was reported once that snow appears on the screen when large amounts of
> system calls are being executed. In particular terminal program that
> constantly check for characters with a getstat call cause problems. I can
> certain attest to this! I found that adjusting the foreground and
> background colors helps a bit but it's still not great. Anyone heard any
> more about this problem?
Some folks have said that a 3 Mhz Hitachi version of the 6809 (called
a 6309??) is the cure. My sources (Kevin Darling, for one) have said
'nyet'. I have it on *good* authority that Tandy is designing a GIME2
chip as a fix, but release date and availability are still in the
'vapor' category. I too am afflicted by a *bad* case of the snow. I
have shut down the coco3 as a consequence. I may turn it back on if
they ever fix it. Meantime, I use a Gimix for all LII stuff, and a few
LI systems tied to it.
>
>5) What is available in the line of public domain terminal programs especially
> ones which support "standard" terminal types and offer Xmodem and Kermit
> support? Also, what about non-public domain programs?
LOTS. The OS9 Forum has Xcom9, a PD program written all in asm that
supports ascii & xmodem xfers. It is fast, tight, and small. The
sources are huge & complex to assemble. Best bet is to get a canned
pre-assembled version. They/we also have SMOD8 - a package written in
C that supports ascii and Compuserve's proprietary 'B' protocol (which
is *much* faster for upload/download via Tymnet/Telenet than Xmodem).
There are also BASIC09 packages called Hi-Term, Bi-term, and a few
others. All work apparently well. (Credits: Xcom9 - Greg Morse (and to
some degree, me); SMOD8 - Carl Kreider; Hi/Bi-term's - Bill Brady).
>6) I downloaded Kermit from Columbia some time ago. It works OK but occasionaly
> it crashes my system or causes it to spontaneously reboot. Anyone had this
> problem?
>
Kermit. I have been using the UG version of KERMIT 1.6 for over a year
with both level I and II os9/6809. While it's not airtight, it's not a
system smasher by any means. In fact, it is the program that runs when
my unix system logs in to my os9 system (instead of SHELL in the
password file). I do automatic, unattended transfers every night with
it. There is also a version 1.7 lurking about - Bob Larson, John
Covicci are a few of the contributors to that, although I am uncertain
as to its stability under os9/6809. That's being looked into right
now.
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