[Coco] Mini Host app

[Rod Barnhart]

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

>

> -----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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