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- Short: Virtual serial.device for AmiTCP
- Author: Sam Yee (samy@sfu.ca | sam_yee@res.com; fido: 1:153/765)
- Uploader: samy@sfu.ca
- Type: comm/net
-
- netser is a virtual device driver for accessing remote serial ports as
- if they were local. Currently, it only supports TCP/IP with the
- AmiTCP package. Support for other packages are planned. netser
- emulates low-level serial device commands over the network. As a
- result, your telecommunication (or "comm") program does not know, nor
- does it care, where your serial port is really located. As you will
- see, netser allows you to do things that have never been possible
- before!
-
- Suppose you are running a two machine network at home through a
- parallel port or Ethernet card. Wouldn't it be nice if one machine
- could access the other machine's serial port? You can conveniently
- call out to a BBS on any of the machines. You may even run a two line
- BBS without buying a multi-serial card! And if you want to run a big
- BBS, but you don't have enough expansion slots to populate with serial
- cards. What you can do is get another (slower) machine and connect
- the two together with Ethernet. netser will allow the BBS machine to
- use the other machine's ports.
-
- With netser and internet, you may run your favorite comm program on
- your friend's serial port, which may be half way across the world.
- This will save you long distance charges.
-
- Now that Amiga LAN's exist, it would be convenient to dedicate one
- machine on the LAN to hold modems that may be accessible to any other
- machine on the LAN. (This is commonly known as a modem pool.) It is a
- common thing on Unix LAN's. Your company will no longer have to drill
- holes in the walls to equip each machine with a modem. As a matter of
- fact, since not everybody needs a modem all the time, the modems can
- be shared. Any way you put it, your company saves money. Because
- most modems nowadays come with FAX capabilities , you can now fax from
- anywhere!
-
- And the list of possibilities goes on and on. The fact is, whatever
- you do with the serial ports on your local machine, you can now do it
- with remote serial ports. Only netser makes it possible!
-
-
- ============================= Archive contents =============================
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- Original Packed Ratio Date Time Name
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- 16368 9219 43.6% 18-Sep-94 20:10:30 bin/netser
- 941 349 62.9% 12-Sep-94 01:18:02 db/netser.exports
- 722 274 62.0% 18-Sep-94 20:52:12 db/netser.imports
- 3268 2032 37.8% 18-Sep-94 20:08:12 devs/netser.device
- 18134 7009 61.3% 19-Sep-94 00:46:48 doc/netser.doc
- 19235 7300 62.0% 19-Sep-94 00:47:02 doc/netser.guide
- 518 277 46.5% 04-Feb-93 20:03:26 doc/netser.guide.info
- 26760 15608 41.6% 18-Sep-94 20:12:06 serv/netserd
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- 85946 42068 51.0% 19-Sep-94 16:49:54 8 files
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