Re: Serial Connection (was Looking for mid-range Alpha--maybe not)

[Ryan Kirkpatrick <rkirkpat nag cs colorado edu>]

On Tue, 6 Jul 1999, Kevin Wood wrote:

> Try this.  When you have the two machines up and running, on the one with
> the monitor under a standard text console, run the following command.
> 
> cu --line /dev/cua1
> 
> This will connect the headed machine to the headless machine via com1 on the
> headed machine.  I know if you are running RH6.0, even the color prompts
> come up.  Seems to work very well for us.  Give it a try.

	The good news is that it shows the UDB boot messages as the other
terminals I tried did. The bad news is that the arrow keys are still not
working in the ARC loader's menus. They just cause the screen to redraw
when pressed. I tried playing around with the console's TERM variable
(i.e. setting it to vt100 and then run cu) to no avail. Also tried playing
with some cu variables, but once again no luck. Even tried to send a
binary file of down arrows (created in vi, via ^V), and that did no good
either. 
	Does anyone know what terminal emulation the UDB's ARC loader is
trying to use? Thanks for your help though, at the very least cu is a
small and useful terminal app that will useful else where. :)
	PS. I am running Debian 2.1 on the terminal (old 486 IBM laptop).

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