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
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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
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John Kennedy                     johnk@opel.uu.uunet
Second Source, Inc.
Annapolis, MD