[Coco] Mini Host app

Rod Barnhart rod.barnhart at gmail.com
Wed May 13 06:58:21 EDT 2009


Telix also has a Windows version, and I believe all the SALT scripts
for the DOS version, including several nice host scripts, will work
under the Windows version as well. And I *think* you could set it to
use beyond COM4.

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Rod Barnhart



On Tue, May 12, 2009 at 10:24 PM, tonym <tonym at compusource.net> wrote:
> Didn't all those 80's DOS comm programs have a MiniHost?
> Might want to check Telix and the rest...
>
>
> Tony
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Tom Seagrove tjseagrove at writeme.com
> Sent 5/12/2009 9:53:27 PM
> To: 'CoCoList for Color Computer Enthusiasts' coco at maltedmedia.com
> Subject: Re: [Coco] Mini Host app
>
> 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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