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From: davidsen@steinmetz.ge.com (William E. Davidsen Jr)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc,comp.binaries.ibm.pc.d,comp.sources.wanted
Subject: Re: Controlling PC via serial port
Keywords: PC, serial port, terminal
Message-ID: <13228@steinmetz.ge.com>
Date: 23 Feb 89 17:03:54 GMT
References: <900@mtunf.ATT.COM>
Reply-To: davidsen@crdos1.UUCP (bill davidsen)
Distribution: usa
Organization: General Electric CRD, Schenectady, NY
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In article <900@mtunf.ATT.COM> arr@mtunf.ATT.COM (Andrew Raffman) writes:
| Dear Netfolk,
| 
| I'm working on a project here which requires me to be able to run my PC from
| an ASCII terminal hooked into the serial port. Does anyone know of any such
| programs, either public domain or commercial? I have heard that they are often
| used by people running BBS's.

	CTTY COM1

put it in your autoexec.bat file. If you need login security (you didn't
say you did) add a tiny password checker as the next command in
autoexec.

	main(argc, argv)
	int argc;
	char *argv[];
	{
	  char pwbuf[80];
	  do {
	    fgets(pwbuf, 80, stdin);
	  } while (strcmp(argv[1],pwbuf));
	}

Warning: I typed this long and complex program in by hand, there may be
typos. If you call it without an argument it will hang your system. This
solution doesn't allow input for the keyboard after CTTY is redirected.
-- 
	bill davidsen		(wedu@ge-crd.arpa)
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"Stupidity, like virtue, is its own reward" -me