LIBPACS@UHUPVM1.BITNET (PACS Forum) (02/12/90)
From-> well!ngarman@lll-winken.llnl.gov (Nancy Garman) About using remote control software to connect PCs to CD-ROMs - see an article in the May 1989 Laserdisk Professional (p 15+) by Paul Kittle. He has looked at a number of remote control packages and found what works and what does not, in regards to MEDLINE CDs. I think Carbon Copy was the most successful. He has also written in ONLINE (Sept 89, p. 63+) about remote control software in general. Steve Palincsar at the GAO (202/275-8428) recently sent me a note about some usage of remote control software - here's what he said... ----- The current issue of PC Magazine (early January 1990??) has an article on PC Remote, a *FREE* remote access program which works with most text applications, including CD ROM products. It's like Carbon Copy, PCAnywhere, etc. -- only instead of costing the patron between 150-1500 bucks to try a copy, a library that wants to offer dial-in access to a CD Rom network can simply *GIVE* every one of its patrons a copy of the program. I (after much negotiation) got a temporary licence from Ziff to demo PCRemote at the next SIGLIT meeting using Computer Library as the product I'd be showing. If you want to get a copy to try (on a PC only, I'm afraid -- no Mac) you can get one from ALIX, the FEDLINK BBS (202-707-9656). ----- Nancy Garman, Editor, ONLINE 606/331-6345 BITNET - well!ngarman@lll-winken.llnl.gov (I think!!) Internet - ngarman@well.sf.ca.us