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From: GFoster@A.ISI.EDU (Glen Foster)
Newsgroups: comp.protocols.tcp-ip.ibmpc
Subject: Re: Another Request re. Telnet for Asynch Programs
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Date: 13 Jan 88 13:20:26 GMT
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Phil,

I know of two packages that do this, they work by redirecting the INT
14 vector to a suitable board driver for the 3Com 3501 board.
Unfortunately, the application program accessing the redirector must
use the INT 14 to do asynch I/O, Reflection (by Walker, Richer &
Quinn) is the only program of which I am aware that allows this
option.  If a program can do over 1200 baud on a 5 mHz 8088, then it
talks to the hardware and won't work with a serial port redirector.
Now if you have source and can insert the proper hooks, anything might
be possible.

The packages are:

TCP Term
Bridge Communications (now owned by 3Com)
2081 Stierlin Road
Mountain View, CA 94043
(415) 969-4400

This is a full-fledged communications program that has terminal
emulation, scripting etc.  I am more familiar with the product
EtherTerm which is virtually the same except that it talks to Bridge
equipment running the XNS protocol stack (rather than the Dod protocol
stack, Bridge equipment supports both).  It is too massive for our
use, we have to have an HP terminal emulator (it is vt100) so we have
to run Reflection (~250K) on top of EtherTerm (~200K) and quickly run
out of memory (especially with PC LAN drivers loaded).  The product
itself seems to be pretty robust although the user interface stinks.


BWCOM
Beame & Whiteside Software Ltd.
259 Fiddler's Green Rd.
Ancaster, Ontario
Canada L9G 1W9

I am not at all familiar with this package having just heard of it, I
have sent for information on it and will pass this along if you are
interested.  I suspect it suffers from the same problem as
{TCP|Ether}Term, being too big for its britches when what I really
want is a bare bones serial port redirector, but we will see . . .

Glen Foster
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