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From: wnp@killer.UUCP (Wolf Paul)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc,comp.sys.att
Subject: Re: Dialing into DOS
Message-ID: <2906@killer.UUCP>
Date: 14 Jan 88 19:19:53 GMT
References: <289@tsc.DEC.COM> <1560@codas.att.com>
Reply-To: wnp@killer.UUCP (Wolf Paul)
Organization: The Unix(R) Connection BBS, Dallas, Tx
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In article <1560@codas.att.com> karthur@codas.att.com (Kurt_R_Arthur) writes:
>In article <289@tsc.DEC.COM> pete@tsc.DEC.COM (Pete Schmitt) writes:
>> Is there a PD or commercial package that would allow me to
>> dial into DOS, emulate a VT100 during the connection and allow
>> me to use the system commands as if I were next to the box (6300+)?
>> Also is there one that will allow that remote login as well as 
>> a local user?
>Carbon Copy, Carbon Copy+, and PC Anywhere all allow remote dial-in and
>submission of commands.  The packages allow users at both ends, but they
>must be performing the same task (i.e., working on the same document or
>spreadsheet).  This is a limitation of DOS.

I looked into this once, and it seems that if you had a program like
Desqview or DoubleDos, you could start a local COMMAND.COM in the foreground
partition, while "CTTY"ing the background COMMAND.COM out the serial port.

Alternatively, start COMMAND.COM in the background partition with the following
C program or equivalent:

main()
{
	freopen("com1", "r", stdin);
	freopen("com1", "w", stdout);
	freopen("com1", "w", stderr);
	/* insert code for login and password here if wanted */
	execl("c:/command.com", "command.com",NULL);
}

Anybody ever try this sort of thing?

I abandoned it because I installed UNIX on my AT clone, which makes it
eminently more suited to multi-user, multi-tasking operation than it was
under DOS :-) ...


Wolf Paul
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