From: oreillym@tartarus.uwa.edu.au (Michael O'Reilly) Subject: Re: term no workee (details enclosed :-) Date: 14 Feb 1993 02:05:57 GMT
C. Armour-Kidson (cs911461@cs.yorku.ca) wrote:
:
: Hey y'all,
:
: I'm rather upset at not being able to run X clients on the school's
: computer and have the output sent to my local X server. When I heard
: about term, I figured what it promised was probably too good to be
: true. All I can say is that I *hope* I'm wrong.
:
: So I tried it out. I used kermit to login to my account at school
: and executed "term" from there. I then did a "term > /dev/modem <
: /dev/modem &" on my end got back a prompt. Note that kermit was
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
: still running (how can I exit without hanging up?). Trying a "trsh",
^^^^^^^^^^^^^
Argh!!
: all I saw was nonsensical garbage appearing on the school's end. No
: login was sent back to me.
:
: I'm assuming that this is a pretty common problem. If so, I suspect
: there's a pretty common reason and solution :-)
Not too common. Most people read the docs.... ;-)
You CAN'T! leave kermit active. So either use '! term < .. > ..' from
inside kermit (This should suspend kermit for the duration of term),
or configure your modem to not hangup on a dropped dtr. Then you can
exit kermit with impunity.
: cak
Michael