tas@tasman.cc.utas.edu.au (Tasman Derk Van Ommen) (03/05/91)
A research group in our department wants to operate a PC as a data logger at a remote site. The intention is to dial in periodically and download the logged data from the remote PC's hard disk. In the perfect world, the logging program would run in the background via a TSR interrupt routine, and the machine would sit running some software to deal with incoming phone calls when they happen. I should point out that the logging is intended to be very low duty-cycle (a few bytes to write to disk once a minute). Will NCSA telnet operate in the desired way? There are great attractions to running something like telnet that will allow access to DOS - new soft- ware for logging could even be sent down the line and installed. Any wisdom out there? Tas van Ommen, Department of Physics, University of Tasmania. email: tas@physvax.phys.utas.edu.au