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From: wilson@uhccux.uhcc.hawaii.edu (Tom Wilson)
Newsgroups: alt.msdos.programmer,comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: PC remote control software
Message-ID: <6053@uhccux.uhcc.hawaii.edu>
Date: 7 Jan 90 02:13:08 GMT
References: <1990Jan3.205217.15352@polyslo.CalPoly.EDU>
Reply-To: wilson@uhccux.UUCP (Tom Wilson)
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In article <1990Jan3.205217.15352@polyslo.CalPoly.EDU> jdunn@polyslo.CalPoly.EDU (Jeff Dunn) writes:
>I am looking for a piece of software that will allow me to dial up an IBM
>PC and allow me to control it remotely. I have been using Carbon Copy 5.0 and
>have had problems with it locking up the keyboard, and I have heard of it
>locking up the entire computer at other installations. The packages I have
>heard of are:
>
>    Carbon Copy 5.0 (flakey)
>    Cosession
>    PC-Anywhere

I've been using CC extensively in the last four months for communications
between Hawaii and several sites in California.  (Version 5.0, 5.1 in the last
four weeks).  We've occasionally had problems with it hanging on both ends
of the connection, but this seems to be traceable to other TSRs popping up
during a session (in particular, I am dialing into a 3Com network with 3com
mail installed, and if it pops up to tell me I have mail on my network
account, CC hangs), and when we've removed the TSRs, all problems go away.

Previously I used PC-anywhere version 2, and had satisfactory results
in local communications.  It seems to be a little more subject to line
noise, but that may be a function of the default setup which I never 
modified.  It occasionally hung on me when sending files over 200K @ 1200 baud.
I like the fact that version 2 takes on 40K RAM in the host, while CC takes
60K (we're tight on RAM, because the host is running a fairly piggy app on a
network.)  Version 3 of pcAnywhere uses 47K, but I haven't tried it yet.


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