OT? Tek 4014 emulator (tying Xterm to ttyS0)

[Philip Pemberton]

Hi guys,

I'm building some hardware that spits out debug info on a regular basis, 
and I figured it'd be useful to have this data graphed on-screen. Making 
it keep track of the last "N" samples and draw them wouldn't be hard, 
except adding an LCD display is out of the question (takes up too many 
I/O pins).

On the other hand, I have a perfectly good serial port which runs at a 
decent rate of speed (115200 baud), and Xterm can emulate a Tektronix 
4014 vector terminal. Perfect... except I can't see an easy way to tie 
Xterm to a serial port instead of having it run an application.

There's nothing in the manpage (admittedly I haven't read it all, just 
grepped it for a few obvious terms) and 'apropos' isn't finding anything 
useful. I've been told that tip(1) on BSD will do what I want, I just 
can't find anything similar on Linux...

Thanks,
-- 
Phil.
philpem at philpem.me.uk
http://www.philpem.me.uk/