[tech] door sensors

[David Manchester]

On Wed, Dec 01, 2004 at 12:16:40PM +0800, James Andrewartha wrote:
> Building on Tearle's and Davyd's good work in rewiring the door sensors, I
> have configured the DECserver (now called monitor) to present LAT
> interfaces to them. Lacking any other software, the current way to see if
> a door is open is 'llogin uccdoor' and then type random characters. If you
> get an echo, the door is closed, if not it's open. Replace uccdoor with
> any of uccdoor, unisfadoor, mrdoor, chdoor. There's also uccpir, but I
> don't know what the interface to that is. Oh, and to quit llogin, press
> enter and type ~. (ssh users beware).

Try <cr>~~.

tip(1) and friends will see the second tilde and pass it through.
Never had the pleasure of llogin.

d
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