[Coco] Mini Host app

[Rogelio Perea]

System won't allow... 'twas one of the first things I went to look at...



On Tue, May 12, 2009 at 9:53 PM, Tom Seagrove <tjseagrove at writeme.com>wrote:

> Can't you go into the device settings and change the COM port?
>
> Tom
>
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> Behalf Of Rogelio Perea
> Sent: Tuesday, May 12, 2009 9:22 PM
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> 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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