[Coco] os9/drivewire driver: success!

[John W. Linville]

On Mon, Nov 09, 2009 at 04:50:18PM -0500, Aaron Wolfe wrote:
> > On Mon, Nov 09, 2009 at 01:53:47PM -0500, Aaron Wolfe wrote:
> >> I think a PTY is a great idea.   Doing the terminal support in a
> >> proper terminal program like minicom makes more sense than writing
> >> my own client.  My only concern is that im not sure if Windows users
> >> will be left out in the cold, but that doesnt bother me too much tbh.
> >> Mac os x should support pty with a little wrangling.
> >
> > I'm pretty sure OSX has at least some version of PTY support.
> > I Googled a bit for win32 APIs (of which I am blissfully ignorant)
> > but didn't find anything specific.  However, there seem to be some
> > implementations out ther -- maybe cygwin or uwin or something would
> > support it?
> >
> >> If you have anything in c that does a pty, i'd love to see the code.
> >> I'm much more comfortable in c than in os9 assembler, but no need to
> >> duplicate work if i don't have to.
> >
> > I'll attach the source for the MESS code I use.  It seems reasonably
> > clear, but feel free to ask questions if you haven't MESSed your
> > brain yet. :-)
> 
> Thanks, looks like it will work with just a little tweaking,
> definitely save me some time.
> I will probably get something put together tonight.
> 
> If you'd like, I can send boot disks/source/binaries etc or put them somewhere.

Sounds great -- I'd love to see them!

John
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