[Coco] Mini Host app

[Rod Barnhart]

I remember back in the late 80s or early 90s, I was using ProComm Plus
but had all sorts of problems with data transfers. One of the local
Wildcat sysops turned me onto Telix, and I used it pretty much from
then until I quit actually dialing out via my PC. I even found a
3rd-party SALT script that was a nearly full-featured BBS package
(IIRC, there was no Fido support) called Host4 that I set up for some
of the local sysops to use.

--
Rod Barnhart



On Wed, May 13, 2009 at 7:47 AM, Rogelio Perea <os9dude at gmail.com> wrote:
> Thanks for pointing at Telix... I just tested it in my office WinXP and ran
> just fine, does go beyond COM4. Now I just need to test it at home later on.
> It's mini host seems more robust than the one the DOS version of ProComm
> Plus came with, it's scripted so it is easy to go in under the hood and do
> some custom stuff in there if so inclined.
>
> As a side note, ProComm Plus ended up being bought by Symantec, and not too
> long ago it was dropped from their product list. From what I read on
> Symantec's site, there were some unresolved XP compatibility issues left
> as-is. not much in there about features and capabilities of the software in
> regards of a host mode.
>
> Back in the 80s, we had an MSDOS computer at work with which we could access
> CompuServe and other networks - started off with a 2400 modem and in the
> decade's later years a screaming fast Hayes 9600 showed up - I would stay up
> late doing 'homework' while browsing the CoCo libraries at the CoCo SIG,
> download whatever came my way and then leave the office setting ProComm plus
> into its MiniHost mode; got home, fired up the CoCo and then called the
> office (local call, no LD nor international dialing as I was living in
> México then). Very cost effective for my student finances :-)
>
>
> -=[ Rogelio ]=-
>
>
>
> On Wed, May 13, 2009 at 6:58 AM, Rod Barnhart <rod.barnhart at gmail.com>wrote:
>
>> 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.
>>
>> --
>> 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
>>
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