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At 09:36 AM 9/30/96 HST, you wrote:
>Every so often it would be useful to use my 701c as an external modem -
>by this I mean, I'd like to plug another computer into the 701c, connect
>the 701c to a phone line, and then run a comms program on the other
>computer. To do this I assume that I have to (1) disconnect the second
>(non-modem) serial port from the mouse/trackpoint and infrared devices,
>and (2) write a short program to pass characters back and forth between
>com1 and com2.
>
>Presumably I can do (1) in the <fn>-1 menus. I'm a little worried
>about (2), since the commercial communications programs seem to take
>stronger control of the ports than just polling the interrupt levels.
>This would imply that the tiny program I have in mind won't be reliable
>at high speeds. Can anyone give me any advice here? Has anyone done
>what I'm trying to do? Best yet, is there already software out there
>(perhaps a DOS port-redirection command I don't know about) that will do this?
>
>Thanks in advance,
>- David (ross@math.hawaii.edu)
>
Fore give me but what you ask is just down right silly. What you
suggest is workable but why. You would be better off buying your other
computer a cheap modem(like an old 14.4 from a garage sale) and with the
time and money saved, take in a half dozen movies...
B/B
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"When the going gets weird, the weird turn pro" -- Hunter Thompson
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