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From: ts@uwasa.fi (Timo Salmi)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.misc
Subject: Re: remote use
Message-ID: <1990Dec16.132957.13389@uwasa.fi>
Date: 16 Dec 90 13:29:57 GMT
References: <10099@jarthur.Claremont.EDU> <90348.102554MORRISON@ucf1vm.cc.ucf.edu>
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In article <90348.102554MORRISON@ucf1vm.cc.ucf.edu> MORRISON@ucf1vm.cc.ucf.edu (Aaron) writes:
>In article <10099@jarthur.Claremont.EDU>, nrossi@jarthur.Claremont.EDU (Nick
>Rossi) says:
>>
>>Is there a program available that allows you to call into your computer from
>>a remote site and execute DOS commands and such as if you were right at your
:
>Yep, there sure is.  The first one to come to mind is PROCOMM.
>Procomm has a host mode (ALT-Q - I think?) which will do what you want.  Very e
>asy to use.  Best of all it is PUBLIC DOMAIN. (Yes, you can also set up
>passwords for access to the dos shell.)

No dice.  I've used Procomm and procomm Plus for a long time. 
Procomm host mode escape to Dos level won't work.  It is true that
it is there alright, but is very buggy and extremely crash-prone at
least on all systems I've tested it.  Try Doug Thomson's TeleReplica
/pc/pd2/tr3-6.zip for much better results.  Available by anonymous
ftp from uwasa.fi archives.

P.S.  Procomm and Procomm+ are excellent products in other respects. 

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Prof. Timo Salmi        (Moderating at anon. ftp site 128.214.12.3)
School of Business Studies, University of Vaasa, SF-65101, Finland
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