[Coco] Mini Host app

[Rogelio Perea]

Interesting. I never had a problem downloading/uploading stuff over the
ProComm Plus mini-host when using the CoCo 3 and an external 2400 modem on
the bitbagner (Ken Johnston's Ultimaterm 4.1 IIRC), but... same general
setup but on a direct connect null modem cable end-to-end-same-room it would
give a couple of retries due to bad CRC reports... same thing now with the
bluetooth pak on the CoCo 1 (MickeyTerm 4.7)... I just ignore those first
tense moments waiting for the transfer to initiate properly ;-)



--=[ Rogelio ]=-



On Wed, May 13, 2009 at 11:35 AM, Rod Barnhart <rod.barnhart at gmail.com>wrote:

> 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 :-)
>