[Coco] Mini Host app

[tonym]

Have you tried hunting down Procomm Plus for WIndows?
I think it also had the mini host mode...

try vetusware or the other abandonware sites...


Tony

-----Original Message-----
From: Rogelio Perea os9dude at gmail.com
Sent 5/12/2009 10:19:51 PM
To: CoCoList for Color Computer Enthusiasts coco at maltedmedia.com
Subject: Re: [Coco] Mini Host app

System won't allow... 'twas one of the first things I went to look at...



On Tue, May 12, 2009 at 9:53 PM, Tom Seagrove tjseagrove at writeme.comwrote:

 Can't you go into the device settings and change the COM port?

 Tom

 -----Original Message-----
 From: coco-bounces at maltedmedia.com [mailto:coco-bounces at maltedmedia.com]
 On
 Behalf Of Rogelio Perea
 Sent: Tuesday, May 12, 2009 9:22 PM
 To: coco at maltedmedia.com
 Subject: [Coco] Mini Host app

 Have my CoCo setup connected over a serial port to a WinXP box (Roger
 Taylor's Wireless pak), with Mickey Term 4.7 at the CoCo and Hyperterminal
 at Windoze. File transfers work ok but it is a rather tedious operation
 when
 more than a couple files are involved.

 Eons ago I used Datastorm Technologies ProComm Plus on a DOS box to do
 precisely the same (before the porting utilities and other nice goodies we
 have today). I installed the shareware version of ProComm Plus to play test
 its MiniHost mode: a barebones BBS environment that allows for user end
 attended operation of a file transfer excercise - my problem is that
 ProComm
 Plus does not go beyond COM4... and the bluetooth port is set to COM6.

 I know there are other less involved options nowadays to port files back
 and
 forth between a CoCo and a Wintel rig, so this is more of an excercise for
 the fun of it.

 Anyone knows about a similar program like PCPlus and its mini-host mode
 that
 would do natively under WIndows?. I had to install a port mapper to siphon
 anything going thrugh COM6 and make it look like COM3 for example,
 aparently
 the Wintel terminal software could care less as it works with no problem.
 I'd just like to go minimum system here, no fancy port mapping nor awkward
 looking DOS boxes. Installing a mildly fledged BBS in Windows would defeat
 the principle of simplicity, I searched around and short of a BBS I didn't
 see anything like PCPlus mini host...



 -=[ Rogelio ]=-

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