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From: mbb@cbnewsh.ATT.COM (martin.b.brilliant)
Newsgroups: comp.binaries.ibm.pc.d
Subject: Re: Procomm Plus
Message-ID: <6834@cbnewsh.ATT.COM>
Date: 21 Dec 89 16:38:41 GMT
References: <5867@cps3xx.UUCP>
Reply-To: mbb@cbnewsh.ATT.COM (martin.b.brilliant,ho,)
Organization: AT&T Bell Laboratories
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In article <5867@cps3xx.UUCP> delong@frith.egr.msu.edu (Keith) writes:
(in response to a query about procomm)
>> I've been trying to use Procomm to call into another PC and shell to DOS,
>> .....
>> I've heard of Procomm Plus (I only have Procomm) and I'm wondering if
>> it is a lot better.  Does it let you use com3 or even com4?  Where could
>> I get a copy?  I have no access to SIMTEL or BBS.

Keith's response:

>Procomm is not able to send screen or keyboard information like
>REMOTE or CARBONCOPY can.  All it can do is redirect standard io.
>.....
>Procomm Plus lets you use com3, com4 and anything else you devise...
>but it still won't work like you want with remote operations.
>
>Unfortunately, REMOTE and CARBONCOPY are both "Pay For" programs...

Excuse me.  Small flame.  Procomm is also a pay-for program, only you
pay for it after you try it out.  It's what they call shareware.

I tried out Procomm on COM3 and it worked.  I must have used a more
recent version of Procomm, but that was almost a year ago.  It came
with my cheapie internal modem.  I didn't pay for it because I also
tried out alternatives, and I preferred, and paid for, BOYAN 4.0.

If you have Procomm, send in your registration and you will get the
latest version.  That should run on COM3 and COM4.  But, as Keith says,
it won't do what REMOTE and CARBON COPY do.

Procomm Plus is also a commercial product.  I've seen it listed in ads
in Personal Computing.

Thank you for your patience.  Sincerely,

M. B. Brilliant					Marty
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