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From: jxh@cup.portal.com (Jim - Hickstein)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: Remote Control of IBM PC
Message-ID: <10165@cup.portal.com>
Date: 19 Oct 88 01:08:29 GMT
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Remote control of a PC over the serial port to another PC or even simply
to a VT-100 can be accomplished by a program called pcAnywhere.  We just
put it on the bench a few days ago, and have been suitably impressed by its
features and speed.  We use it as a stopgap solution to having a multi-user
application (a network management console).  It has limitations, of course,
but is generally worthwhile.  It is made by:
  Dynamic Microprocessor Associates, Inc.
  545 Fifth Avenue
  New York, NY 10017 USA
The "worldwide distributor" is:
  EKD Computer Corp.
  770 Middle Country Road
  P.O. Box Y
  Selden, NY 11784 USA
  (516) 736-0500
or get it from a retail software outfit (I think we got this one from
Egghead).  Frankly, I haven't had much time to play with it, but at first
blush it seems OK.  My application is not exactly well-behaved, in that I
hook the BIOS INT 16H keyboard vector to filter out ctrl-C and ctrl-Break
before they (sometimes) get to DOS and wreck my screen.  I thought that
might be a poser, but pcAnywhere took it in stride.  They seem to have done
their homework (no pun intended, honestly).  It feels as though it is of the
class of programs that, like some debuggers, get fixed immediately and improved
rapidly because the programmers use them constantly.  I suspect the developer
of pcAnywhere lives quite some distance from work. :-)

-Jim Hickstein
jxh@cup.portal.com
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