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From: dj@cix.UUCP (Dj Walker Morgan Systems Manager CIX)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc,comp.protocols.tcp-ip.ibmpc
Subject: Re: Mapping ETHERNET to COM(n)
Message-ID: <173@cix.UUCP>
Date: 19 Aug 88 09:28:39 GMT
References: <142@pbseps.UUCP> <224@slxsys.specialix.co.uk>
Reply-To: dj@cix.UUCP (Dj Walker Morgan Systems Manager CIX)
Organization: Compulink Information Exchange, Surbiton, Surrey, UK
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>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).
> 
> -- 
> Richard Perlman * pbseps!rdp@PacBell.COM || {ames,sun,att}!pacbell!pbseps!rdp
> 180 New Montgomery St. rm 602,  San Francisco, CA  94105  |*|  (415) 545-0233
>

Now, this rings a bell ..... You won't be able to do it in software *BUT*
I remember Novell were hacking away on a board which sat where Com1: or
Com2: would sit and did it's best to pretend to be a Com port. It then
assembled a packet and bounced it on into the network for picking up
by whoever was interested (in Novell's case it was a comms server)....

Now that's what I've heard..... It aint 'exactly' what you want, but it
is going in the right direction.... I haven't seen it as a final product
from Novell though..... But you can always ask them :)

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