Subject: Re: Powerbook150 Dumb Terminal
From: Rich Lafferty (rich@alcor.concordia.ca)
Date: Thu Aug 26 1999 - 15:28:53 MDT
Quoting Mark Fassler (fassler@frii.com) from Thu, Aug 26, 1999 at 02:42:59PM -0600:
> If you have a free modem or printer port on your G3, then you can easily
> use your Powerbook as a dumb terminal.
>
> - Add a line in your /etc/inittab file to put a tty on it's free port
>
> - Hook a serial cable from the free port on the G3 to the printer port
> on the Powerbook.
Does this need to be a null-modem cable? I've not played around with
terminal-emulation between Macs, but with those Other Computers, this
sort of thing would need a crossed-over null-modem cable.
-Rich
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