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From: dan@soma.UUCP (Dan Johnston)
Newsgroups: net.micro.pc
Subject: unix to pc com via modem
Message-ID: <1048@soma.UUCP>
Date: Mon, 11-Aug-86 10:19:59 EDT
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Posted: Mon Aug 11 10:19:59 1986
Date-Received: Tue, 12-Aug-86 01:15:52 EDT
Reply-To: dan@soma.UUCP (dan Johnston)
Organization: Neurology, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, Tx
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Keywords: pc com software

I am a new reader to this newsgroup so I apologize ahead of time if this 
has been discussed before.  

At my work I have a unix machine (masscomp) with two modems and two 
dedicated telephone lines that are used frequently.  We also have 
kermit on the unix box.  The masscomp runs both system V.2 and BSD 4.2.

At home I have an IBM pc/xt that I use for fun things like home
money management, investment stuff, and games for my three kids.  I also
use the pc heavily for dialing up my work for reading/sending mail, reading
netnews, and wordprocessing remotely.  I also have kermit on the pc so
I can transfer a file from the unix machine at work to the pc at home.  All
works beautifully and is extremely useful--all thanks to the systems
manager at work (stan barber).  On a number of occasions, however, I wished
I could do the reverse--that is, while at work (on the unix box), I would 
like to be able to dial up the pc at home and look at a file or run a program.
The question is what software is available (if any) to allow me to do this?
The modem is autoanswer and is connected to a dedicated phone line so that's 
no problem, but I would need some software on the pc to allow it to be run 
remotely.  I would then need something on the unix box to set up properly the
terminal characteristics.

Any ideas or suggestions would be welcome.  thanks!

dan johnston                         arpanet: dan%soma.UUCP@rice.EDU
dept of neurology                    UUCP:  soma!dan
baylor college of medicine
houston, tx 77030