Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!clyde.concordia.ca!uunet!comcon!roy From: roy@comcon.UUCP (Roy M. Silvernail) Newsgroups: comp.binaries.ibm.pc.d Subject: Re: Procomm Plus Summary: Shareware solutions Message-ID: <204@comcon.UUCP> Date: 23 Dec 89 14:51:28 GMT References: <5867@cps3xx.UUCP> <1989Dec21.122025.25155@uwasa.fi> Organization: Computer Connection - Anchorage, Alaska Lines: 29 In article <1989Dec21.122025.25155@uwasa.fi>, ts@uwasa.fi (Timo Salmi LASK) writes: > best in calling BBSes. For remote control of a PC see the > advertisments of commercial programs eg in the PC Maganize. And > perhaps someone here will have information on a shareware option? > I do news admin for my site. I do my work from home, using the trusty modem and Boyan 4.01, a shareware terminal from Justin Boyan. The distribution diskettes include external modules for several transfer protocols, including PCKermit. I have had very good results from PCKermit, although I installed Zmodem on this site, and use it mostly (because it's faster). Boyan's VT-100 emulation is very good. A few of the function keys had to be reset for this site. The overall utility of the terminal and it's macro language are excellent. Boyan seems at home on a BBS or a Unix box. Shelling to DOS and working remotely are another question, though, and don't depend so much on the connection and terminal as on the software running on the remote machine. Programs such as Remote will let you drive a PC remotely with programs that do hardware i/o, but those are commercial programs. I haven't seen a shareware remote program yet... -- _R_o_y _M_. _S_i_l_v_e_r_n_a_i_l | UUCP: uunet!comcon!roy | "Every race must arrive at this [ah, but it's my account... of course I opine!] point in its history" SnailMail: P.O. Box 210856, Anchorage, | ........Mr. Slippery Alaska, 99521-0856, U.S.A., Earth, etc.|