Re: help with seting up a dumb terminal to Linux please

["Rayson Ho" <rayson_ho@hotmail.com>]

>Hi!  I have Redhat 5, and appreciate your help, since the help from the
>Slackware people hasn't helped much simply because of the differences
>between the two distributions. What I'm trying to do is to connect
>a 286 PC, running only DOS6.2 with my P166 Linux box.  On the DOS side, 
I
>am using Telix for the terminal program.  The serial cable is plugged 
into
>Serial port 1 on that machine.  On my linux machine the serial cable is
>plugged into Serial port2.  I am only using the console in Linux, not
>Xwindows.  I want to make it so that the Dos box will show the login
>prompt, so I can give commands to my Linux box through that computer, 
and
>so that the output for my commands will go to the Dos box.  This is 
just
>like any other dumb terminal situation.  I would prefer doing this at
>57600 BPS, but I can be flexible on that.  Could you give me exact
>instructions on what to type in what file, so that the Dos box can 
emulate
>the Linux box?  I would really appreciate it.
>P.S. I installed the complete Redhat 5 distribution, so i have all of 
the
>files necessary.
>Thanks
>I'm new at linux so try to be obvious so I'll get it
Why not Minix on the 286 instead of M$-DOS

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