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From: papa@pollux.usc.edu (Marco Papa)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: PC bridgeboard stuff
Message-ID: <20054@usc.edu>
Date: 22 Sep 89 23:29:57 GMT
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In article <22300001@bradley| england@bradley.UUCP writes:
|I'm writing this for a friend who just recently bought an Amiga 2000,
|with a PC-bridgeboard (XT).
|His question was:
|Is there any way to use a communications program through the Amiga
|Serial port, from the PC side, similar to the way that the PC side
|can access the parallel port?

No, there isn't.

| The parallel bridge software was 
|included with the package, however nothing was mentioned anywhere 
|as to how he could run an IBM communications package.
|The reason this is needed is that Bradley has a new computer which
|(for some weird reason) uses function keys with its menus; they also
|supply a communications package, but it only works with IBM compatibles
|operating through COM1:

Your friend will have to buy an IBM PC-type serial port and connect it to
the PC side of the Bridgeboard.  I've been using such a setup for over a 
year now.

|Any suggestions?

There you have'em.

-- Marco Papa 'Doc'
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