While more or less off-topic I figure I'm not the only one that finds this
to be of interest. Or am I the only one around here that actually is using
all those DECserver's we've all got laying around? Also considering how
easy it is to pickup a DECserver 200MC this might be of interest to people
that don't even have any terminal servers at this time.
Of course my DECserver 90L+ is currently the only thing I have on the
10Base2 segment of my network :^)
Zane
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>This is it, the moment you've all been waiting for...
>
>latd has reached 1.0. All bugs have been quashed, all features have been
>perfected, just download and enjoy !
>
>I know I said 0.8 was feature-complete but several weeks of heavy use
>convinced
>me to add a couple more at the last minute.
>
>^_at_ in a reverse-LAT connection will send a BREAK to the terminal server or
>host.
>Useful for VAX consoles that one, and
>You can define a group called "lat" in your /etc/groups file and all
>reverse-LAT
>ports will then have that as their groups along with 0660 permission so you
>don't have to be root to use reverse-LAT any more.
>
>And there are binaries. Only Intel at the moment but that *may* change.
>
>Here's the full NEWS page:
>
>
>- Support BREAK character
>- Added support for a group (gid) called "lat". If you have one of these
> in /etc/groups then users with that group can connect to reverse-LAT
> ports with no other privileges
>- Added startup script
>- Remove "LAT started", "LAT stopped" messages from latcp as they interfere
> with the startup script and it's "not the Unix way"
>- Added RPM build target
>- Added DEB build target
>- Forced all node names & service names to be uppercase in latcp
>- Split -DOLDSTUFF into two bits: -DUSE_OPENPTY and -DSETLOGIN_HOST. The
> second option doesn't work on SuSE 6.4, but does on Debian 2.2 and RedHat
> 6.2, the first should be fine on anything later than RedHat 5.2 (libc 2.0
> I think that means)
>
>BTW: I haven't forgotten dnprogs. There will be a 0.6 release in the middle of
>October soon after I return from holiday. For the impatient, it's all in CVS!
>
>patrick
>
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