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- Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st
- Subject: Re: Help setup modem
- Message-ID: <H.ea.Dd8mmfLFpM2@yonder.equinox.gen.nz>
- From: craig@yonder.equinox.gen.nz (Craig Shore)
- Date: Mon, 25 Jan 1993 15:40:38 +1200
- Reply-To: craig@yonder.equinox.gen.nz
- References: Re: Help setup modem
- Distribution: comp
- Organization: Equinox Networks (Public access), Node: Yonder
- X-Software: HERMES GUS 1.04 Rev. Sep 5 1992
- Lines: 44
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- In <TB1153.93Jan24175105@thor.albany.edu>, BEIDEL TIMOTHY writes:
-
- >1. What cable should be used to connect the 25-pin "modem" port
- > to the external Hayes-compatible modem?
-
- Just a standard RS232C one.
-
- >2. Is there shareware that can enable him to emulate a VT100
- > and use Kermit protocol?
-
- Yup, Uniterm, available on
- chsun.chuug.ch /archive/software/atari/Uniterm/
- any probs, contact the author poole@chuug.ch
-
- Or CoNNect available on
- atari.archive.umich.edu /atari/Telecomm/ USA
- or ftp.uni-kl.de /pub/atari/Telecom/ Germany
- the author is for this is here, he reads this newsgroup.
-
- >3. Where to find good shareware.
-
- anon ftp site (problems? contact)
- ---------------------- ----------------------------
- atari.archive.umich.edu (weiner@atari.archive.umich.edu) USA
- ftp.tu-clausthal.de (BWWL@ibm.rz.tu-clausthal.de ) Germany
-
- atari.archive is mirrored in the UK somewhere, can't remember the
- name off hand though.
-
- >He has a double-sided 3.5 inch disk drive, which I assume is 720K.
- >A user in the Netherlands tells me that the machine could probably
- >read IBM formatted disks (since I will have to download it and
- >get it to him somehow).
-
- That is true. For him to format it, depending on which version of
- TOS in his ST he has, he may need to use a special format program,
- on other ST's, just format from the desktop. If it's formatted on
- the IBM then passed onto the ST it will be read in no problems at all.
-
- Craig.
-
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- * Craig Shore. Phone (Voice) +64 3 3852501 *
- * Email:craig@yonder.equinox.gen.nz or shore_c@kosmos.wcc.govt.nz *
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