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From: cedman@golem.ps.uci.edu (Carl Edman)
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Subject: Re: RUNNING MODEM IN THE BACKGROUND??
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Date: 14 Nov 90 01:17:02 GMT
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In-reply-to: zhou@brazil.psych.purdue.edu's message of 13 Nov 90 23:07:41 GMT

In article <11474@j.cc.purdue.edu> zhou@brazil.psych.purdue.edu (Albert Zhou) writes:

         I am considering writing a program to handle sending and receiving
   data with modem in the background, just as the printer does, so that I
   can use my PC for other purposes at the same time. I am not well-informed,
   and there might already exist such a program (However, I looked through
   the manual of KERMIT and could not find such things). Any information
   about it, or any interest in my planned program is very welcome.

Mandatory PC hating comment:

Why don't you junk your PC and buy a real computer which multi-tasks
and so allows you to use any terminal program you wish to use and
keep it in the background or in the foreground and swap back and
forth without any ugly hacks and incompatibilites. There are many
workstations which run unix at high-end-PC prices, any amiga will
multitask, you can even buy nice(in comparison to MS-DOS) UN*X
implementations for your PC, some of them already at a $100.

        Carl Edman

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