[GreenKeys] TTY-CONNECT loop adapter thingy

Henry Minsky [email protected]
Thu, 14 Aug 2003 22:46:14 -0400


Bill Buzbee wrote:

>Looks good Gil.  Just a note about the HeavyMetal program here.  HeavyMetal
>at present doesn't work with WinNT, Win2K or WinXP, and I don't know when
>I'm going to find the time to make that happen.  However, with Gil's loop
>adapter thingy the problem (which is related to setting up the odd baud
>rates we need) will go away.  So, if you've been wanting to drive your TTY
>with Heavymetal from a computer running Windows XP, this should make it
>possible.
>...Bill Buzbee
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I use a PC running Linux to drive my teletype; the Linux serial drivers 
can run the UART with 5 bit chars at odd baud rates.
To control my system, I modified the "boa" web
server to also handle the serial port. But I am thinking that  HeavyMetal
might port to Linux without too much trouble, seeing as how it uses 
Perl, which is well supported, even better on Linux
than on Windows I think.



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