nanogui: Terminal Emulator
Subject:
Re: Terminal Emulator
From:
Julian Boot ####@####.####
Date:
30 Apr 2000 06:37:46 -0000
Message-Id: <200004300637.QAA30089@piglet.dstc.edu.au>
> Now, are you talking about having a telnet client that allows you to
> telnet to another box from winCE, or are you talking about a telnet
> daemon, which allows you to talk to winCE from another box?
the former, ie a telnet client that allows a login on a remote machine
running telnetd.
> I'm suggesting that mterm work under WinCE, which only requires
> a command.com or cmd.exe shell, with output redirected to mterm,
> where I take take of the scrolling, etc. Does WinCE have a
> cmd.exe? If not, it would be fairly straightforward to write one,
> that basically has a few internal commands, and execs the rest
> of the stuff using CreateProcess... perhaps we should hack
> sash.
yeah, a simple shell would be straight forward. I have not looked very
hard for a wince shell - I bought the device to run linux but did not get
the time I hoped to help on the port (sorry brad!). You'd still need a
command line telnet client for WinCE to fulfill frank's original request.
Not that hard either, I guess. And a nice Unix-style solution ;-)
Time is looking better now and I am looking at getting a non-X dist up
and running and was hoping to make use of microwindows. A decent
terminal app would fit in well.
> For scrolling performance you mean that winCE telneted to another
> box, but the screen scrolled very slowy.. right?
thats right. its partly due to the lame epson LCD controller in the
clio which has no bitblt, but also just bad software. the fb console
of linux has much better scrolling on the same hardware.
-J
