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- From: pwb@newt.phys.unsw.edu.au (Paul W. Brooks esq.)
- Subject: Re: Modem sharing using PC/NFS and Sun
- Message-ID: <1992Aug28.054429.18473@usage.csd.unsw.OZ.AU>
- Summary: Probably not
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- Date: Fri, 28 Aug 1992 05:44:29 GMT
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- In article <idmrmb.714338561@gsusgi1.gsu.edu>, idmrmb@gsusgi1.gsu.edu (Mark Buffington) writes:
- >
- > We have a bunch of PC/DOS clients running PC/NFS connecting
- > to our Sun. On the Sun is a modem which the workstations
- > would like to be able to access. Is there some way to allow
- > the PC's access to the modem in a 'transparent' way? By
- > transparent I mean allowing them to run PC communcations
- > software that thinks the modem is local to the workstation.
-
- Probably not. Most PC comms. software access the serial ports by
- by-passing the BIOS and DOS handlers and directly manipulate the I/O
- port addresses for the controller chips. If your comms. software can be
- set to use the BIOS, or has a setting to use INT14, you might be able to
- find something.
-
- >
- > Thanks,
- > Mark..
- > --
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- > |__)|\/||__) R. Mark Buffington | DBA - Database Group
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