[Coco] Using a pee sea as a "server" for internet access?

[Rod Barnhart]

On 5/29/07, Roger Merchberger <zmerch-coco at 30below.com> wrote:
> Rumor has it that Rod Barnhart may have mentioned these words:
> >On 5/29/07, Joel Ewy <jcewy at swbell.net> wrote:
> >>But since UNIX was born into a world of text terminals and teletypes, a
> >>UNIX-like operating system is probably your best bet here.  Fortunately,
> >>there are a number of Live CD options available if you want to preserve
> >>MS-Windows on your hard drive.
> >
> >I kinda doubt that Leon will have much luck getting the mwave stuff
> >working under Linux, which means he's stuck with Windows.
>
> Dunno, I found this:
>
> http://sourceforge.net/projects/acpmodem/
>
> and this:
>
> http://freshmeat.net/projects/acpmodem/
>
> from a quickie Google search, and as it is an IBM chipset & they've pledged
> a fair amount of support for Linux, there might be a pretty good chance he
> could get it working under Linux...

Wow. I never imagined in a million years that the mwave stuff would be
useful. I always had difficulty with 'em under Windows, with the
shipped software...

> >  And I'm not sure that the terminal can be redirected out a serial port
> > on Windows.
>
> I doubt that, not without other software, anyway.
>
> Having never tried it, I really couldn't say...

I doubt it too, but IIRC some external commands that would let the
terminal be redirected to a serial port back in the DOS days. I never
tried it, so I can't recall what those commands may be. Maybe one of
the third-party command.com replacements, like 4DOS (there was a
version supported under Windows 95, surprisingly), would support this?



-- 
Rod Barnhart aka Wintermute (http://www.nitemarecafe.com)