Re: OT: Notebooks /w a serial port?

[Andy Dills <andy () xecu net>]

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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