Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/18/84; site timeinc.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!bonnie!akgua!whuxlm!whuxl!houxm!vax135!timeinc!dwight From: dwight@timeinc.UUCP (Dwight Ernest) Newsgroups: net.micro.pc Subject: Re: Access XT Remotely? How? Message-ID: <65@timeinc.UUCP> Date: Sun, 2-Dec-84 12:00:25 EST Article-I.D.: timeinc.65 Posted: Sun Dec 2 12:00:25 1984 Date-Received: Tue, 4-Dec-84 06:17:50 EST References: <607@ucbtopaz.CC.Berkeley.ARPA> Organization: Time, Inc. - New York Lines: 36 > > 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 evena 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. -- --Dwight Ernest KA2CNN \ Usenet:...vax135!timeinc!dwight Time Inc. Editorial Technology Group, New York City Voice: (212) 554-5061 \ Compuserve: 70210,523 \ EIES: 1228 Telemail: EDPISG/TIMEINC \ MCI: DERNEST