Reviving and connecting an ASR33

From: Pete Turnbull <pete_at_dunnington.u-net.com>
Date: Tue Sep 23 02:44:59 2003

On Sep 22, 20:23, Ian Primus wrote:

> Hmm, if it sends all characters as uppercase, I will need some way to
> change the PC to recognize that and convert it all back to lowercase
or
> something, since all of the UNIX commands are lower case. I assume
> there is probably a setting in Linux somewhere to do that. At least
> it's ASCII and not Baudot. That would be lots of fun...

On old versions of unix, if the username and password you typed was all
upper-case, it assumed you were using an uppercase-only teletype and
set things accordingly. I doubt if Lunix includes that code :-)
 However, you should be able to do "stty tty33" which should set xcase,
iuclc, olcuc, the correct delays for carriage-return and linefeed, and
allow mark parity. I'm not sure how you type the stty command in the
first place, though :-) You'll probably have to change /etc/gettydefs.

-- 
Pete						Peter Turnbull
						Network Manager
						University of York
Received on Tue Sep 23 2003 - 02:44:59 BST

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