mitch@arcturus.UUCP (Mitchell S. Gorman) (12/01/88)
Let's face it: my father will never be more than an (shudder!)
"end-user" of his IBM PC. After all these years, I have learned to live with
it, although sometimes it does get a little difficult ('What's the command to
see what files are on a disk?').
In light of this, I would like to set up Procomm on his hard disk such
that I can call into his PC and do whatever I need to to fix his screwups, with-
out requiring him to do anything more than turn it on and start the program. I
have read through the documentation I have on Procomm (unfortunately, it's from
V2.4), and have tried everything I could think of, including verifying that I am
correctly following the carrier detect signal from my modem, but I still have no
luck.
Has anyone else set up Procomm in this way? I really need to be able to
do some work on Dad's PC, and trying to talk him through the fixes over the
phone is incredibly frustrating. It's also expensive: he's in Philadelphia,
and I'm in Placentia! If anyone else has done this sort of thing, could you
please EMail me copies of your settings for both host and user end? My blood
pressure could really use the help!!
Thanx,
Mitch @ Rockwell, Anaheim
Disclaimer: I got Procomm from a guy I met on a streetcorner in LA.cotner@BRAHMS.BERKELEY.EDU (Carl Cotner) (12/03/88)
A friend of mine has a CPU (Computer Products Unlimited) AT clone that uses the 5 Chips and Technology Set and the Pheonix bios. He is considering running OS/2 on his machine, but he heard that OS/2 is heavily machine dependent; that different versions of OS/2 are licensed by each manufacturer from Microsoft, just like MS-DOS only this time OS/2 is even more machine specific, and in fact, is BIOS specific and chipset specific (?). He also recalls hearing that you can't simply run a program that was written for MS-DOS under OS/2, that vendors ahve to recompile their code or rewrite it for OS/2. Are these items true, and if so, how would he able to get OS/2 for his machine. Does he have to contact CPU, or can he buy it off the shelf? He'd be appreciative (and I'd be grateful) if someone can set him straight on these facts. Thanks. Carl cotner@brahms.Berkeley.EDU