[56938] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: OT: Notebooks /w a serial port?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Andy Dills)
Fri Mar 21 21:39:35 2003
Date: Fri, 21 Mar 2003 21:39:02 -0500 (EST)
From: Andy Dills <andy@xecu.net>
To: joe mcguckin <joe@via.net>
Cc: Drew Weaver <drew.weaver@thenap.com>, NANOG <nanog@merit.edu>
In-Reply-To: <BAA109C0.26670%joe@via.net>
Errors-To: owner-nanog-outgoing@merit.edu
On Fri, 21 Mar 2003, joe mcguckin wrote:
> Buy a MAC Powerbook. I just purchased a 12" PB as a backup to my 15" TiBook
> and for folks around the office to use for field use. With a USB serial
> adaptor and Zterm (shareware terminal emulator) it works great.
conserver is a great command line solution.
.cshrc:
alias console "sudo /usr/local/etc/conserver.rc start; sleep 2; \
/usr/local/bin/console -p 1025 -M 127.0.0.1 serial; sudo \
/usr/local/etc/conserver.rc stop"
I didn't like zterm...
Andy
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