Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!usc!apple!uokmax!skaggs From: skaggs@nsslsun.gcn.uoknor.edu (Gary Skaggs) Newsgroups: comp.dcom.modems Subject: Re: RUNNING MODEM IN THE BACKGROUND?? Message-ID: <1990Nov14.164538.24851@uokmax.ecn.uoknor.edu> Date: 14 Nov 90 16:45:38 GMT References: <11474@j.cc.purdue.edu> Sender: news@uokmax.ecn.uoknor.edu (Nets) Organization: National Severe Storms Laboratory Lines: 21 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. I haven't used it, but I've had friends who have used BACKTALK which is bundled with PCTOOLS vers. 5 and 6. It will run in the bg while you do whatever it is you do in the fg. And, it is bundled with a nice suite of other stuff (PCTOOLS, etc.) IMHO. ______________________________________________________________________________ Gary Skaggs - WB5ULK skaggs@nssl.gcn.uoknor.edu DOC/NOAA/ARL/ERL/NSSL "The correct way to punctuate a sentence that starts: 'Of course it is none of my business, but...' is to place a period after the word 'but'. Don't use excessive force in supplying such a moron with a period. Cutting his throat is only a momentary pleasure and is bound to get you talked about." ---Lazarus Long, "Time Enough for Love"