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From: dwight@timeinc.UUCP (Dwight Ernest)
Newsgroups: net.micro.pc
Subject: Re: Access XT Remotely? How?
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Date: Sun, 2-Dec-84 12:00:25 EST
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Posted: Sun Dec  2 12:00:25 1984
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> 
> Can you tell me of a way to access an XT remotely?  For example,
> I have a terminal at home.  I would like to call up my XT at work and 
> do some work on it (not just transfer files).  (I also have an XT at home.
> If it would be any easier, I could use that as a terminal.)
> 
> (Of course, I assume that I have RS232 communications and a modem 
> at each site.)
> 
> Thanks
> 
> Sam Scalise

Sam, It's not easy to do what you want to do. Most applications software
for the PC has depending a great deal upon the ROM BIOS and insists on
only writing to or reading from CON:. Even redirection to one of the COM:
ports doesn't do a lot of good with most applications that have this
ROM BIOS dependency, and almost all good stuff has it. About the only
editor that works with a redirected PC with a COM port is, for instance,
EDLIN, and you and I both know how limited that is.

I recommend you get a good terminal management program that permits you
to support dialin as well as dial out, like Chuck Forsberg's Professional
YAM (Yet Another Modem--I can send you further information on this
great program if you need it). Then get a PC or even  a jr, and
put this other machine at home. Run the applications you want to run
at home, and then use your modem to transfer the files between work and
home. It's really the only way to do it... remember, the other problem
with what you want to do is that line noise can really throw things
off, even if the application you wanted to run ran properly through the
COM: port.
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