Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!opel!johnk From: johnk@opel.uu.net (John Kennedy) Newsgroups: comp.unix.microport Subject: Re: Communications Programs Message-ID: <281@opel.uu.net> Date: 27 Sep 89 09:47:47 GMT References: <364@jwt.UUCP> Reply-To: johnk@opel.UUCP (John Kennedy) Organization: Second Source, Inc., Annapolis, MD Lines: 24 I, too, bought TERM and am extremely disappointed. They got a glowing recommendation in the nutshell book, _DOS meets UNIX_. What I was looking for was a way to download and command the DOS system from the UNIX system. After being told I should buy a version for DOS and a version for the V/AT, I ended up shelling out over $600. What I found was that to do that, you run the DOS system in a "server" mode, and send commands to it. All the "server" mode is is a script that does a ctty command on the DOS machine and waits for input. Hell, I could have done that, and then driven the DOS machine with shell scripts from the UNIX host. Spend and learn. John -- John Kennedy johnk@opel.uu.uunet Second Source, Inc. Annapolis, MD