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From: cjdb@sphinx.UChicago.UUCP (Charles Blair)
Newsgroups: net.micro.pc
Subject: Re: Connecting to two hosts simultaneously
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Date: Wed, 5-Feb-86 16:17:07 EST
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Posted: Wed Feb  5 16:17:07 1986
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A number of people have sent me excellent suggestions about how to
connect to two hosts simultaneously. The ones involving Kermit I have
tried and they do work. These involve accessing one system through one
port, then escaping back to the PC, changing ports, and logging on to a
second system. One can then "escape" from each system in turn while
remaining logged on to the other one. I have not tried doing the same
thing using Crosstalk (which was also suggested), but I imagine it
should work as well, too. My problem, however, is somewhat less
straightforward.

One system that I need access to can only be accessed satisfactorily by
a special program of the type that is now being referred to as not
"well-behaved." Since I cannot "push" out of this program--the only way
to leave it is to drop the line--I need to run it (if possible, and
this is the revised form of my question) as a subordinate task to a
program that allows switching between two communications programs, in
this case, the badly behaved program I mentioned and something like
Crosstalk or Kermit. However, my reading of the literature on things
like DesqView and Microsoft Windows does not make it clear whether
badly behaved programs *can* in fact be run as background processes.
Can they, with one or another of these programs?  Again, what I'm
really trying to get is information from someone who has solved a
problem similar to mine, so I don't shell out money for a program that
may or may not work.
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