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From: cpp90221@dcscg1.UUCP (Duane L. Rezac)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: Remote Control of IBM PC
Message-ID: <396@dcscg1.UUCP>
Date: 19 Oct 88 16:29:20 GMT
References: <8466@mhuxu.UUCP>
Organization: Defense Construction Supply Center, Columbus
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From article <8466@mhuxu.UUCP>, by jmj@mhuxu.UUCP (J. M. Johnson):
}}In article <757@dinl.mmc.UUCP>, noren@dinl.uucp (Charles Noren) writes:
}} I need to be able to remotely control application software on
}} an IBM PC/XT and PC/AT (running DOS).  Is there just a simple
}} DOS command to do it?  Do I need to write interrupt handlers to
} 
} I just did this a couple of nights ago.  If what you want to do is control
} your PC from a remote terminal try this:
} 
}      C> CTTY COM1
} 
} this redirects all CON: i/o through COM1.  I was running my computer with a
} TRS-80 PC2 Pocket Computer this way just for shits and gigles.
} 
} Typing: CTTY CON from the remote terminal returns i/o to normal channels.
} -- 
}        Life's just a game, you fly a paper plane, there is no end. - TBA
} 
} J. M. Johnson, AT&T Bell Laboratories, Reading, PA            ...!att!mhuxu!jmj


The above method will work for programs that use the DOS screen and keyboard
routines. If the program usees it's own custom routines, Watch out!!! CTTY may
have strange results. ( I know from experience.. when I tried to run DBASEIII
remotly using CTTY, it promply locked up my system, and I had to reach for 
the big red switch :-(
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