From: Satya satyap@satya.virtualave.net On Aug 23, 2001 at 14:16, noel seq wrote:
Does linux have support for telex machines/telex data. I have an old 8088
If it does, I want to know how to send emails such that they are telexed to ships, and receive telexes. I guess I'd need a telex line in the first place?
We send only telexes to the ships through our telex machine. Of course for that you need a telex machine. For email, we have tied up with a service provider named station12 who is based in netherlands. An email is created through any email client, goes to my linux box, to hathway cable to station12 to inmarsat which locates in which occean my ship is travelling and sends it to their sat C terminal. Of course they are now also offering a pop3 account mail service for the ships.
based telex machine (diskless) which receives input from the serial port
(9
pin) which i would like to do away with and connect the telex line to my linux box. Any pointers in this regard will be appreciated.
Your line may be compatible, but you'll need to write a device driver for Linux if one isn't available already. Then you'll need to write applications, daemons, etc if they're not available.
I searched a lot but could not find any such driver. Am not too much into programming and cannot do it myself. so i queried if any of you guys have come accross such a thing or can give me any pointers.
Thanx anyway.
Noel
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On Friday 24 August 2001 10:34, Noel wrote:
We send only telexes to the ships through our telex machine. Of course for that you need a telex machine. For email, we have tied up with a service provider named station12 who is based in netherlands. An email is created through any email client, goes to my linux box, to hathway cable to station12 to inmarsat which locates in which occean my ship is travelling and sends it to their sat C terminal. Of course they are now also offering a pop3 account mail service for the ships.
based telex machine (diskless) which receives input from the serial port
(9
pin) which i would like to do away with and connect the telex line to my linux box. Any pointers in this regard will be appreciated.
Your line may be compatible, but you'll need to write a device driver for Linux if one isn't available already. Then you'll need to write applications, daemons, etc if they're not available.
I searched a lot but could not find any such driver. Am not too much into programming and cannot do it myself. so i queried if any of you guys have come accross such a thing or can give me any pointers.
Telex uses 7 bit ascii. I think all you have to do is set your tty to 9600 bps 7bit . not sure about start/stop and parity. I had written some assembly code for controlling a telex machine (1983) using a XT (8088 4.77 Mhz 10Mb hardisk). The documentation is lying somwhere in my factory. If you desperately need it I will fish it out in the 1st week of September. Should be very simple to write some assembly code. But does your 8088 processor sit between the telex machine and the PC If so the 8088 should be capable of reading 8 bit ascii. All yoo need to figure out is the escape codes for sending and recieving.
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