Re: Initialising modems (fwd)

Jeff Mealiffe (jeff@lewis.edu)
Fri, 13 Oct 1995 20:51:56 -0700 (PDT)

Is there any way to do this with a Mac?

-jeff

On Fri, 13 Oct 1995, Brian 'MegaZone' Bikowicz wrote:

> Once upon a time Philip Hammersley shaped the electrons to say...
> >a modem pool. He wants to reach for example Compuserve using CIS. Is there
> >any software to transparently capture COMx requests and convert into a telnet
> >session? We would install a Portmaster at his location for that, of course.
>
> Yes. There is a shareware package on the nets called comt - it is a Windows
> comm port redirector that uses telnet. I have a copy I grabbed a while back,
> but you might want to run archie to look for the latest version. (I grabbed
> it to test before I recommended it. I've had a number of people use it here
> and my old job and it seems to work fine.)