rusin@mp.cs.niu.edu (David Rusin) (12/07/90)
Several posters have addressed means of handling PC I/O from the COM ports. I suppose the typical application is the ability to run a PC remotely so you can have a great CPU and lots of software in one place and continue to run it from home. I recall a couple of such remote-operation software packages at SIMTEL. In particular, I just tried out TeleReplica (tr3-5.zip, which I copied from uwasa.fi) and found that it handled perfectly everything I had hoped (though I know it doesn't handle graphics output). HOWEVER, I am still in the market for software which accomplishes the same thing on the PC end, but allows the user to sit in front of a UNIX box. I've got some PC-specific software to run and a number of users who connect to our SUN workstations. Everything is connected (or could be) using modem lines and also using ethernet links. Surely someone has a way to work this out. I would be delighted to see, say, a) A UNIX telereplica client, or b) a DOS rlogin server I recognize that there are unavoidable limitations (e.g. DOS software which handles screen I/O with direct memory writes is not going to work), and I know that the UNIX routines are going to somehow have to make sense of DOS output like INT21 functions to write anywhere on the screen. But for a program with relatively simple I/O, it would seem natural enough for someone to have workd out the necessary software ... Oh, a DOS emulation window exists but isn't really enough since the PC has some plug-in cards and device drivers which I suspect can't be duplicated in the UNIX operation of the CPU. Follow-ups are fine, but I suspect there are a lot of specifics to my request that might be best addressed in email exchanges with knowledgeable sources. Thanks in advance - Dave Rusin (rusin@math.niu.edu)
ganzer@cod.NOSC.MIL (Mark T. Ganzer) (12/07/90)
Regarding CTTY substitutes, there is a shareware program named DOORWAY that
is able to redirect BIOS and direct screen writes to the COM port as ANSI
codes (for text modes, at least). So you can use any terminal program that
handles ANSI codes, although you can't access any graphics modes. The
program is available on SIMTEL.
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I have an AT&T 3B2/400 running UNIX System V and an AT clone running DOS.
I am trying to set it up so that you can run DOS remotely from the UNIX
box or UNIX remotely from the DOS box. I have serial line running from
contty on the UNIX end to COM1: on the DOS end.
I can dial out to UNIX with procomm no problem. The trouble is dialing
into DOS. I have Remote 2 and it looks like it *should* work but all
I get is all kinds of garbage. Is there a better way?
Would using MODE under DOS to make the COM1: the console work? (anyone
know the switches needed?)
Any advice would be appreciated. Also anyone with success in getting UUPC
running (mail for DOS), please e-mail to me...
thanx in advance
scott
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