[Trlog] TRlog under Linux!

[Kevin Schmidt]

> 
> tclay at netdoor.com wrote:
> > It's been a few years since I tried TR using DOSemu under linux. I tried 
> > it again tonight, and it appears to run flawlessly! Including cw paddle 
> > and radio interface! This is on a 100% no-Microsoft-product computer.
> 
> This is great news, Tor.  I've tried the all Linux TLF code, but 
> concluded that it wasn't quite "there" yet.
> 
> Can you run telnet in another x-window and feed spots to TR?  Now THAT 
> would be cool!
> 
> 73,
> Charlie  N9CO

You can do this with pseudo terminals. I tried this when I was playing with
trlog under linux, but since I never use packet I haven't done this for
a while.  Here is what I wrote in my notebook.

In the dosemu.conf you need to point one of the com ports to an unused
pseudo terminal with for example the line:

$_com1 = "/dev/ptyq1"

In that case /dev/ptyq1 will be the master, and the slave will be /dev/ttyq1.
You then fire up anything you want using /dev/ttyq1 for io. I don't have
a telnet daemon running so I tested it with secure shell.
For it I just typed, in another window:
ssh < /dev/ttyq1 > /dev/ttyq1 localhost
to log in to localhost. The input and output will be sent to /dev/ptyq1 
which is com1 under trlog. You can then connect to anything you want 
from trlog. Normally pseudo ttys will work run under root, so I think dosemu
must be given root privileges for this to work, but as I said I haven't
tried this for a while.

73 Kevin w9cf
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