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From: doc@holin.ATT.COM (David Mundhenk)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Login to DOS, drive speeds
Keywords: serial, disk, login, PROCOMM
Message-ID: <499@holin.ATT.COM>
Date: 2 May 89 15:39:15 GMT
Organization: AT&T DSG Holmdel NJ USA
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Login to DOS:

I read some of the postings on this subject a month or 2
ago, but missed some of the details. Two questions:
 
1. What are the details of "redirecting" the console on a
   MESSY-DOS machine, to login from a terminal or another
   machine thru the serial port?

2. If I use PROCOMM (the P.D. version) in host mode, I can
   login and get a menu. Everything works fine until I
   shell out to DOS, then it just locks up. Any clues?

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On another note (rather than post second article),

Does someone have a list showing disk access speeds for the
common drives (Seagate, Miniscribe, CDC, etc.) and possibly
the encoding method (MFM or RLL)? Or a pointer to a source
of this information? I could really use this...(don't want to
recommend an 85 ms. drive for an 80386 machine :-)
BTW, if anyone needs it I have a file with formatting parameters
for 100+ drives. I think when I collect speed info I will add
it to this document.

Thanks for your time.

-Dave Mundhenk

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