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+atarisio (disk emulator for use with Atari 8-bit computer and SIO2PC)
+
+AtariSIO allows a Linux system to act as one or more disk drives,
+a printer, and/or a cassette drive for an Atari 8-bit (400/800/XL/XE)
+computer, using an SIO2PC cable.
+
+Even without SIO2PC or a real Atari, this package includes some utilities
+that are useful for manipulating and examining Atari disk, tape, and
+executable images.
+
+A real 16550A UART (or close derivative) is required. In particular,
+atarisio does NOT work with USB to RS232 adaptors.
+
+========================================================================
+= READ README.Slackware about the SETUID and GROUP variables           =
+= before building the package!                                         =
+========================================================================
+
+Before you can run atariserver or atarixfer, you will need the atarisio
+kernel module loaded. If you're dedicating a serial port for use with
+atariserver, you can add the following line to /etc/rc.d/rc.modules or
+rc.local (as you prefer):
+
+/sbin/modprobe atarisio port=/dev/ttyS0
+
+(Replace ttyS0 if you're using a different serial port, of course)
+
+If you need to use your serial port for other purposes, it's a little
+less cut-and-dried. You will have to either manually modprobe and rmmod
+the module as needed, or write yourself a script to do the job (possibly
+also starting up agetty when the module is unloaded, or SLIP mode if
+you're using FujiChat on your Atari, etc etc).