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#72791From: Michael DoveNov 5, 1989 10:03 PM
Keith: In another thread (and, I think, another forum), somebody mentioned to somebody else (her great-aunt's father's hairdresser's plumber, I think 🙂 that that person should talk to you and try to get you to release your custom version of "AUX:" to shareware. I'm just being nosy, and wondering what you've done to "AUX:"…I have a semi-professional interest (working on a project that could use an AUX: with more features)…might you elaborate on how you've modified it?
#73047From: KEITH YOUNGNov 7, 1989 12:13 PM
Actually, what I had done was take the PD aux: driver (I don't recall off-hand who wrote/modified it) and made some changes to it to… 1) open the serial port in SHARED mode. 2) have it _not_ send out a read-request (or write-request for that matter) until it needed to. When 1.3 came out, they changed the official AUX: to open the device in SHARED mode, but it still sends out a read-request (of course, for the intended purpose, it needs to… so it can accept in-comming data). What I wanted to use it for was mostly outgoing re-direction, so I didn't want the read-request sent out. (I was using it for things like 1> type >aux: dh0:docfile ). The code I started with is here in AmigaTech in lib 9 if you're interested (I think it's "AUX1A.ARC" ).
#73872From: SyndesisNov 11, 1989 11:25 PM
Did I understand what you said? Here's what I do. Don't scream. 🙂 I have a BBS program running on my PC, connected to the modem, on my second phone line. I have a serial cable between my A2000 and the second serial port on the AT. The BBS can "link" the two machines such that everything I type at a remote computer will be transfered to the Amiga. So I say "newwsh aux:" to access both the Amiga and the PC. But I'd like to be able to transfer a file from the Amiga to the remote computer, via a CLI-based Amiga terminal program that would use the current console window (aka AUX:) instead of the serial port. (This would be fine with the PC side, it is absolutely transparent…) So what do I need to do this?
#74590From: KEITH YOUNGNov 15, 1989 11:20 PM
Use the RM Function to read these messages.
#75455From: SyndesisNov 21, 1989 9:35 PM
Good news for me! Steve Drew's hacked AUX: is *exactly* what I needed! Now I can d/l files from my Amiga, when I've dialed into the PC. The strangest things can make me happy. 🙂