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From: ee161abt@sdcc13.UUCP ({|stu)
Newsgroups: net.micro.pc
Subject: Re: Access XT Remotely? How?
Message-ID: <106@sdcc13.UUCP>
Date: Mon, 3-Dec-84 22:42:05 EST
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Posted: Mon Dec  3 22:42:05 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. 
> -- 
> 		--Dwight Ernest	KA2CNN	\ Usenet:...vax135!timeinc!dwight

While it's true that most software won't work over a serial line,
doesn't PC-DOS allow the use of the machine remotely via 
ctty (or is it stty?). although I've never tried it, "ctty aux"
should do what you want.  If this method polls the serial port
(as oposed to being interrupt driven) you might not be able to go
very fast, but ....

- stu