[geeks] bootstrapping and Apple IIe over serial link

[Geoffrey S. Mendelson]

On Mon, May 14, 2007 at 03:31:31PM -0400, Charles Shannon Hendrix wrote:
> You can use ADTPro to do this, but it requires Java and graphics, and
> the UNIX machines I have with serial ports are headless.

I have had lots of good luck with VNC. You can find a VNC X-server
and a vnc client for almost anything.

If you have an X server on a machine with a monitor, such as MacOSX 
or Windows (the cygwin package is huge, but it does have an X server),
you can just point your TERMINAL variable to it.

For example,

with VNC:

	vncserver :99
	export DISPLAY=:99
	xterm&

if your VNC is not set up to start a Window manager and you want one
add:
	twm&

(connect to VNC server at hostname:98 now)
---------------------------------------------------------------------------

With cygwin: (assume UNIX conputer is fred and Windows is ethel)

(start X server on ethel)
open up a shell and type:
	export DISPLAY=:0
	xhost +



On UNIX machineL

	export DISPLAY=ethel:0
	xterm&
	twm&

Both will give you an xterm and a simple window manager.

Geoff.

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