[Coco] Using the /t2 with VCC & Dialup

[Bill Pierce]

NitrOS9 Becker already has terminal port drivers for telnet. You must have the becker boot system running on VCC (as well as DriveWire) with "/Nx" (/N, /N1 - /N13) descriptors as well as the "scdwv" driver. All of this is standard on becker disks from the NitrOS9 repository (no need to add anything).
To use the ports, you must have a terminal program that allows you to choose your port. For example, to use Supercomm, you need a directory in "/dd/sys" named "DIAL" ("/dd/sys/DIAL"). In this directory, create a text file "xxx.adf" (xxx being any legal filename, best descriptive of the target terminal). The adf file contains the telnet port and login info (file format in the Supercomm manual).
Once you have the adf file setup, to use supercomm, you type:

supercomm /n

Once supercomm is running, hit a key to kill the logo, then hit <ALT><a> to bring up the autodial menu listing all your adf files (one for each terminal target). Select one with the arrow keys and hit enter... and you're logging in to you telnet server or BBS or whatever.
I can't say for other terminal programs as I've always used Supercomm, but all the info "should" be in the manual for the terminal. It may be possible to use terminal programs hardcoded for "/t2" by renaming "/N1" to T2. This would have to be done internally in the descriptor as well as the filename. Then you may be able to use software that requires T2.

You can find Supercomm and the manual here:
http://ftp://www.rtsi.com/OS9/OS9_6X09/TELECOM/
 
 
 
-----Original Message-----
From: edward jaquay <ejjaquay at gmail.com>
To: CoCoList for Color Computer Enthusiasts <coco at maltedmedia.com>
Sent: Mon, Nov 25, 2019 12:20 pm
Subject: Re: [Coco] Using the /t2 with VCC & Dialup

I am looking for sort of the same thing.  A way to telnet into a Nitros-9
session running on vcc or ovcc.  One idea is to write a Nitros terminal
driver for the becker port. I have proven ability to send ASCII text to
Nitros9 using netcat and a simple c program so a driver might be too hard
to write.  Another idea is to write a new dll for vcc that emulates rs232
pak but connects via telnet port(s). Matbe harder to write but existing
ACIA driver should work.  I do wonder if either of these have already been
done, no sense reinventing the wheel.

On Sun, Nov 24, 2019, 19:02 Robert Gault <robert.gault at att.net> wrote:

> Phil,
>
> I'm pretty sure you can't do that directly with VCC. You might be able to
> indirectly reach the
> Internet using the Becker version of Drivewire with VCC. I have no idea
> how to do that but Bill
> Pierce may know how to do that.
>
> Robert
>
> phil pt wrote:
> > Is there any way to use /t2 with Vcc and dialup?
> >
> > Thanks
> >
>
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