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At 11:07 PM 10/2/96 HST, you wrote:
>I wrote:
>> >Every so often it would be useful to use my 701c as an external modem -
>
>Bill Bryan replied:
>
>> Forgive 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...
>
>Not forgiven; if you don't know 'why' then you shouldn't call me "silly".
>Among other things, I want to be able to intercept packets, which I
>can't do with a regular modem.
>
>Out of curiosity, how would buying another modem save me money (over the
>TP, which I already have)?
>
>- David (ross@math.hawaii.edu)
>
David I'd like to apologize for calling your question a silly idea.
It doesn't even sound like me. Must have been my alter ego that wrote that
one. I misunderstood what you truly wanted.
So you want to catch packets. You may already know, but DOS lets
you use Pipes, and Filters. Pipes to let you do basic redirection from say
screen to com1. The tricker part here is the filter. You will want to
redirect your output from the communications program into a filter, that
will read the headers of the packets and upon making a match, send them to a
file otherwise pass the packets out to the next redirection which would be a
comm port on your laptop out to your desktop. Maybe you could find some
source code from the university computer network department that can be
modified to your liking and compiled into a filter. It's even possible that
someone at the university has a similar thing already rolled. You didn't
say what you were trying to catch.
B/B
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"When the going gets weird, the weird turn pro" -- Hunter Thompson
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