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From: philf@med-isg.uucp (Phil Fernandez)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc,comp.protocols.tcp-ip.ibmpc
Subject: Re: Mapping ETHERNET to COM(n)
Message-ID: <23341@labrea.Stanford.EDU>
Date: 22 Aug 88 16:55:28 GMT
References: <142@pbseps.UUCP> <224@slxsys.specialix.co.uk>
Sender: news@labrea.Stanford.EDU
Reply-To: philf@med-isg.UUCP (Phil Fernandez)
Organization: Stanford University Medical School
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In article <224@slxsys.specialix.co.uk> jpp@slxsys.specialix.co.uk (John Pettitt) writes:
>From article <142@pbseps.UUCP>, by rdp@pbseps.UUCP (Richard Perlman):
>> I am looking for a program/patch/utility that would allow me to
>> use IBM-PC software (i.e. Crossstalk, MS-Windows, Symphony etc.)
>> with a psuedo port on an ethernet instead of the expected 
>> standard serial port COM(1,2).  I want to "talk" with a tcp/ip
>> host (running NFS if that matters).
>> 
>> The sysem is a standard IBM-PC/XT with a Western Digital WD8003E
>> ethernet board.
>
>The short answer is that it can't be done !
>

Hmmmm....It works for me here at Stanford!  We use the BWCOM package
from Beame & Whiteside Software Ltd.  BWCOM works correctly with comm.
programs that interface directly to the UART.  It does so by looping
back the COM[1,2] port via a simple loopback plug supplied with the
product. 

BWCOM looks at "AT" commands sent by the comm program to obtain IP
addresses and other control codes, then redirects the comm session out
via telnet.

The long answer is that it can be done !

Beame & Whiteside Software Ltd. is at:

259 Fiddler's Green Road,
Ancaster, Ontario
Canada L9G 1W9
(416)648-6556

pmf

(I have no relationship with B&W, except that I'm a customer of
theirs...)

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