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From: han@Apple.COM (Byron Han)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.comm
Subject: Re: Serial port to MacTCP redirector
Message-ID: <50728@apple.Apple.COM>
Date: 25 Mar 91 02:54:34 GMT
References: <12087@uhccux.uhcc.Hawaii.Edu>
Organization: Apple R&D - Networking & Communications
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In article <12087@uhccux.uhcc.Hawaii.Edu> tony@uhcmtg.phys.hawaii.edu (Antonio Querubin) writes:
>I am looking for some kind of utility that will redirect input and output
>from a Mac's serial port to MacTCP using a specific TCP/IP host.  What I want
>to do is fool a program that knows only how to talk to the serial port, use 
>MacTCP instead and talk to a specific IP host.  The program does some very
>special terminal emulation which we need but we don't have a serial connection
>to the mainframe that it works with.
>
Why not use the Connection Manager which uses the same connection model
independent of the underlying transport protocol, be it serial/modem 
connections or TCP/IP protocols or other datastream protocols (ADSP, LAT,
DECnet, SNA, etc)

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