samlb@pioneer.arc.nasa.gov (Sam Bassett RCD) (10/17/89)
My brother-in-law, who doesn't have access to the net, would like to run dBaseIII on his PC (clone) at work, and call in from home via modem and run problems on it. He has tried using ProComm+ in host mode, only to find that dBase ignores the serial line and ProComm entirely, and does reads and writes to the BIOS or the machine directly. His question is: Is there software that will allow him to use dBaseIII (or FoxBase) remotely? If so, could you please give me some pointers I can pass on to him. I do not read either of these groups regularly, so please answer directly, and I will summarize to the net if there are a lot of responses. adTHANKSvance Sam'l Bassett, Sterling Software @ NASA Ames Research Center, Moffett Field CA 94035 Work: (415) 694-4792; Home: (415) 969-2644 samlb@well.sf.ca.us samlb@ames.arc.nasa.gov <Disclaimer> := 'Sterling doesn't _have_ opinions -- much less NASA!'
paul@csnz.co.nz (Paul Gillingwater) (10/20/89)
In article <3483@amelia.nas.nasa.gov> samlb@pioneer.arc.nasa.gov (Sam Bassett RCD) writes: > My brother-in-law, who doesn't have access to the net, would like >to run dBaseIII on his PC (clone) at work, and call in from home via >modem and run problems on it. I have done this using product called DoorWay, which is shareware, and available from most good BBS (e.g. Salt Air, home of PCBoard). This product reads the video RAM directly, and sends out codes to the remote user to update the changes to the screen. It works OK with Procomm, but will work much better with Qmodem, which supports a special Doorway feature that even allows ALT and scan-code sequences to be sent via modem as well, not just ASCII. -- Paul Gillingwater, Computer Sciences of New Zealand Limited Domain: paul@csnz.co.nz Bang: uunet!vuwcomp!dsiramd!csnz!paul Call Magic Tower BBS V21/23/22/22bis 24 hrs NZ+64 4 767 326 SpringBoard BBS for Greenies! V22/22bis/HST NZ+64 4 767 742