No web browser, just command line things. It's nerdy to walk into a coffee shop with a VT-100 terminal containing a RaspPI inside and connect to the wireless of the shop, to check email. Even more so with a hi-profile B Series. b On Fri, Jan 2, 2015 at 10:00 AM, Marko Mäkelä <msmakela@gmail.com> wrote: > On Fri, Jan 02, 2015 at 09:49:45AM -0500, william degnan wrote: > >> Part of the problem lies with the Apple ///. >> > > Ok, no PETSCII issues there. :) > > I may also have to play around with the ttyUSB0 port on my linux box, >> there may be some things I can do with characters there. There is a lot >> about how to tunnel FROM a Raspberry Pi, but not as much about how to make >> INBOUND connections via a terminal. >> > > With real (non-USB) RS-232 hardware it used to be as simple as editing > /etc/inittab to start a getty process on /dev/ttyS0 or such. I used to have > a Digital VT220 and later VT420 terminal attached to my Debian GNU/Linux > computer in the student dormitory in mid-1990s. > > With USB, I can imagine that it could be more tricky, even if the ttyUSB0 > adapter is plugged in before starting the system. Maybe the udev > initialization could interfere with the startup. And it could become > different with systemd too. > > My goal is to have a general purpose way to connect machines that can run >> terminal software directly to the Internet via the Raspberry Pi. >> > > Oh, I see. What are you using for a web browser? I would expect elinks to > work reasonably well (for those web pages that did not yet catch the > javascript virus). Actually I designed one web site lately using HTML4 and > CSS (2 or 3, I guess), and I tested it with elinks. It is obviously > ignoring all pictures and CSS, but it works pretty well. I used semantic > markup, even for the menus where I used CSS tricks to make them look modern. > > > Marko > > Message was sent through the cbm-hackers mailing list > Message was sent through the cbm-hackers mailing listReceived on 2015-01-02 16:00:04
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