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|    Dennis J to Jeff Bowman    |
|    Re: Ping    |
|    08 Mar 08 19:57:00    |
      -=> Jeff Bowman wrote to Dennis J <=-               JB> Good news is, I'm pretty sure almost all the Amigas had RS-232 serial        JB> ports, so you should be able to use a common null modem cable to hook              The 500 definitely has one. My GVC 2400bps modem is connected to it. :)                      JB> need to find some software, presumably for OSX in your case, to listen        JB> on a TCP connection on your main computer, and pass communication        JB> through your serial port. Since OSX is based on Unix, this might end        JB> up being fairly simple to do already without even downloading anything,        JB> since I know Linux can do it, but I have no idea off the top of my head              Looks like there are a few options to do this on Windows and Linux. I've        already got a Linux webserver machine running 24/7, so this sounds like a        perfect job for it. Thanks for the tip!              __       Dennis               --- MultiMail/Darwin v0.49       --- SBBSecho 2.12-Win32        * Origin: 1:249/206 [Premier BBS -- telnet://dennis.ca] (1:249/206)    |
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