Path: utzoo!utgpu!watmath!clyde!att!osu-cis!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!mailrus!ames!lll-tis!oodis01!uplherc!wicat!meph!keith From: keith@meph.UUCP (Keith McQueen) Newsgroups: comp.binaries.ibm.pc.d Subject: Re: Remote control of PC via modem Message-ID: <00019@meph.UUCP> Date: 5 Dec 88 15:20:16 GMT Organization: WICAT Systems Inc. Orem, Utah (Engineering-R & D) Lines: 27 In the article: " From: mfryba@phoenix.Princeton.EDU (Martin Francis Ryba) Subject: Remote control of PC via modem " >I have a problem, and am getting a little exasperated by now.... >I want to remotely control a AT via the modem port. I don't want the >graphics (just tty), so I can do this from any machine. I've looked at >various communications programs (mskermit,BitCom, etc..) and have yet to >find one that will do. "Answering capability" is a joke with most of >them, since they all require someone at the keyboard still. I mean >REMOTE control: this thing is going to be operating a telescope 500 >miles from the lab. I don't relish the idea of writing a device driver >from scratch. What do people who run BBS's do? I have MKS Toolkit and >all languages of import, so a variety of methods are open once I figure >out how to address the COM port to control the modem (Hayes-compatible). >I currently get a write error if I simply write stuff to COM. It sound like you might be able to get by just using the "CTTY" command of DOS. This assigns another device to be the console device for DOS ie. COM1 or COM2 etc. It is rather crude, but may just do the job for you. Keith (not Steve) McQueen.