You can redirect console I/O, but what I have isn't a program..it's
in a file...so something needs to send this file accross the line to
the modern computer (linux or otherwise).
-Bob
>On Thursday 11 December 2003 08:45, Bob Brown wrote:
> > If I have linux on a pc or laptop, how do I get a shell session
> > running on the serial port? Does it automatically start a getty on
> > serial ports? If so, than just having a terminal program that could
> > send text on the apple would do it?
>
>You don't need to run a getty running to transfer the data... getty is
>only necessary if you want to be able to log into the machine from a
>serial "terminal." All you should need to do on the host (Linux
>machine) side is start up a terminal emulator (such as Minicom or
>Kermit) and tell it to log the 'session' to a file.
>
> > I don't have proterm for the apple...would that be a good solution
> > for my problem (to either send to procomm plus (which I also don't
> > have) or do a linux system)?
>
>There's a command you can use in Applesoft Basic to redirect console I/O
>to a card in one of its slots - eg, the Super-Serial card. I don't
>know what it is, and can't find a refernce to it using google. Does
>someone else on the list remember how to do this?
>
> > >On Wed, 10 Dec 2003, Bob Brown wrote:
> > > > Once the apple is hooked to a modern pc (probably a laptop
> > > > running windows-xp), what s/w would be best to run on the apple
> > > > and on the laptop to get the apple files transferred up to the
> > > > pc?
> > >
> > >I really like Procomm Plus For Windows on the PC and ProTerm on the
> > > Apple ][. If you need a copy of either then just holler.
> > >
> > >On the other hand, if you have a Linux box handy, you can log in to
> > > a shell session on one of the serial ports and then just dump the
> > > files on the Apple side and cat out the data to a file on the Linux
> > > box.
> > >
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