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From: ERA <era@usit.net>
Organization: ERA Computer Consulting
Subject: Re: (C-)Kermit(/2,-95) and Remote Control of DOS?
Date: Thu, 23 Dec 1999 15:54:56 GMT
To: kermit.misc@columbia.edu
Binx Bolling wrote:
>
> ERA <era@usit.net> writes:
>
> > I'm looking for interactive control of a NON-GUI IBM PC-DOS
> > session on a remote PC-DOS system via dial-up modem.
>
> Have you considered using VMware? You could run a virtual dos
> machine remotely. It has a lot of advantages over pcanywhere. But
> it does require a host macine running Linux or NT.
For now I've convinced the business owner to allow one other person
at each store to have admin access to generate the reports he wants.
I mentioned the ability to automate all the transfers at night if
done this way and he capitulated, not very reluctantly I might add.
Now I just have to implement a password changing scheme and get the
dialup scripts working from his OpenServer 5 box.
What is VMware and how does it relate to using Kermit to remote
control PC-DOS? Further as you can see in my .sig I am an OS/2 and
OpenServer reseller so answers with "NT" in them cause me to raise my
hands and place my forefingers in the sign of the cross. Because "NT"
is not the "answer" to any question *I* wish to ask to resolve a
problem. ;-)
My client already has BLAST and the ability to R.C. DOS from
OpenServer using it but the cost to upgrade his BLAST to the latest
version for all his stores is much more than he has paid to buy
DOS-Kermit and C-Kermit from Columbia U (on my recommendation).
BTW, if this is about to stray far off the beaten Kermit path let's
move it to e-mail.
--
Gene Alexander <era@usit.net>
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