[Coco] os9/drivewire driver: success!

[Aaron Wolfe]

> 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.
-Aaron


>
>> Thanks, i should have thought of using a pty, glad you did!
>
> Hey, anything I can do to get you to make my life better... :-)
>
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