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From: tad@killer.UUCP (Tad Marko)
Newsgroups: net.micro.pc
Subject: Re: unix to pc com via modem
Message-ID: <258@killer.UUCP>
Date: Fri, 15-Aug-86 19:44:24 EDT
Article-I.D.: killer.258
Posted: Fri Aug 15 19:44:24 1986
Date-Received: Mon, 18-Aug-86 00:49:58 EDT
References: <1048@soma.UUCP> <122@crash.UUCP>
Organization: The Unix(tm) Connection BBS, Dallas, Tx
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Keywords: pc com software public
Summary: Procomm's limitations

In article <122@crash.UUCP>, adamsd@crash.UUCP (Adams Douglas) writes:
> The freeware comm program ProComm has a simple Host mode which enables
> you to post a password and dialup name on your machine and pass through
> into a PC-DOS shell when you dial up remotely.
> 
> I don't know exactly what its limitations are, but I've tried it on my
> machine here and it works just fine.
> 
> Adams Douglas

Well, I use Procomm, though I have never used the host mode.  I'm sure
it is very similar to using the DOS ctty command to accomplish the same
thing.  The limitations are that it will only work with DOS, and programs
which do all their I/O through BIOS, in other words, *very* few commercial
programs will be able to be run over the modem.  However, this command
is still *very* useful for retrieving data from your computer via remote
(especially if the rest of you family is computer-illiterate and therefore
uncapable of seting up the computer for an upload with you giving
instructions over the phone :-)

					Tad
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