| 1 | .TH TERM 1
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| 2 | .SH NAME
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| 3 | term \- turn PC into a dumb terminal [IBM]
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| 4 | .SH SYNOPSIS
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| 5 | .in +.5i
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| 6 | .ti -.5i
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| 7 | \fBterm\fR [\fIbaudrate\fR]\fR [\fIparity\fR] [\fIbits_per_character\fR]
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| 8 | [\fB\-\fIdial_string\fR] [\fB\-c\fIkcmd\fR] [\fIdevice\fR]\fR
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| 9 | .in -.5i
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| 10 | .br
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| 11 | .de FL
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| 12 | .TP
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| 13 | \\fB\\$1\\fR
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| 14 | \\$2
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| 15 | ..
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| 16 | .de EX
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| 17 | .TP 20
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| 18 | \\fB\\$1\\fR
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| 19 | # \\$2
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| 20 | ..
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| 21 | .SH EXAMPLES
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| 22 | .EX "term 2400" "Talk to modem at 2400 baud"
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| 23 | .EX "term 1200 7 even" "1200 baud, 7 bits/char, even parity"
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| 24 | .EX "term 8 9600 /dev/tty01" "9600 baud, 8 bits/char, no parity, use tty01"
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| 25 | .EX "term -atdt12345 /dev/tty01" "Start with a command to dial out"
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| 26 | .EX "term -cH'echo Hello World!' ..." "Bind a shell command to the 'H' key"
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| 27 | .SH DESCRIPTION
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| 28 | .PP
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| 29 | \fITerm\fR allows
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| 30 | \s-1MINIX 3\s-1
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| 31 | to talk to a terminal or modem over RS232
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| 32 | port 1. The program first sets the baudrate, parity and character length,
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| 33 | and then forks.
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| 34 | The parent sits in a loop copying from \fIstdin\fR (usually the console's
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| 35 | keyboard), to the terminal or modem (\fI/dev/tty00\fR).
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| 36 | The child sits in a loop
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| 37 | copying from the terminal or modem (\fI/dev/tty00\fR) to standard output.
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| 38 | Thus when
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| 39 | RS232 port 1 is connected to a modem, every keystroke typed on the keyboard
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| 40 | is sent to the modem, and every character arriving from the modem is displayed.
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| 41 | Standard input and output may be redirected, to provide a primitive file
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| 42 | transfer program, with no checking. Any argument that starts with
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| 43 | .B \-at
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| 44 | is sent out to the modem, usually to dial out. \fITerm\fP accepts
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| 45 | several commands that are formed by typing the escape character, CTRL-],
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| 46 | and a letter. Type CTRL-]? to see a list of commands. The subshell command
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| 47 | is very important, it allows you to type in a ZMODEM command to transfer
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| 48 | data. Do not quit \fIterm\fR to do this, or your modem line will be reset!
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| 49 | \fITerm\fP keeps the modem line open on file descriptor 9 while running the
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| 50 | subshell, so you can type
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| 51 | .PP
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| 52 | .in +.5i
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| 53 | <&9 >&9
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| 54 | .in -.5i
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| 55 | .PP
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| 56 | at the end of your ZMODEM command to connect it to the modem. With
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| 57 | .BI \-c kcmd
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| 58 | arguments you can bind shell commands to keys. The character just after
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| 59 | .BR \-c
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| 60 | is the key to use, the rest of the characters form the command to bind to the
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| 61 | key. This command also has the modem open on file descriptor 9.
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| 62 | .LP
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| 63 | Important note: to use \fIterm\fR, it is essential that
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| 64 | \fI/etc/ttytab\fR is configured so
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| 65 | that there is no login session started on the modem line.
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| 66 | If there is, both the login session and
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| 67 | term will try to read from the modem, and nothing will work.
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| 68 | .SH "SEE ALSO"
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| 69 | .BR rz (1),
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| 70 | .BR sz (1).
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