[GRLUG] Unix Term Emulator Connection

[Adam Tauno Williams]

On Mon, 2008-11-17 at 14:21 -0500, Adam M. Erickson wrote:
> Is there a way to take an old computers I have laying around and have
> it emulate a VT100 or  WYSE60 or just use Telnet  connect to a old
> Data General Unix box?
> It is on a LAN and would require the Ethernet port.
> Telnet works great from windows DOS shell and Linux Command prompt
> window but when I try to do it outside a GUI environment I cannot get
> the escape keys and other keys to work.
> Telnet will connect, but the program  running on the Unix requires F4
> to escape and F7, to undo but they do not get sent to the server
> correctly. The backspace does not work also.
> Can someone point me in the right direction?

You need a terminal emulation layer.  The LINUX kernel is vt100-ish, so
many things work, but not everything.  Used
<http://freshmeat.net/projects/wy60/> to emulate a Wyse60, back in the
day.

> Auto booting from a CD that connects to the server would be a plus for
> when the hard drive dies.
> I have search the web over and over but since I do not know much about
> Terminal connections I haven't figured out where to start.