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   Andreas Kohlbach to mpej00@gmail.com   
   Re: New to Tcpser, Don't know cmd   
   17 Sep 19 16:50:57   
   
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   On Tue, 17 Sep 2019 11:12:52 -0700 (PDT), mpej00@gmail.com wrote:   
   >   
   > Hey, trying to emulate a modem to work on my old computer running XP   
   > Pro x32. Have Cygwin downloaded, and have tcpser 1.0rc11   
   > downloaded. Looking at the read me I'm trying to put in the sample   
   > they give, but I have no clue what it means. This is the sample:   
   >   
   > tcpser -d /dev/ttys0 -s 38400 -l 7 -tsSiI -i "s0=1" -p 6400   
   >   
   > So I'm in cmd inputting the following (its automatically going c:\Documents   
   and Settings\Administrator>)   
   >   
   > desktop\tcpser1.0rc11\tcpser\ d /dev/ttys0 s 38400 l 7 tsSiI i "s0=1" p 6400   
   >   
   > But all it says is that its not an internal command, yadda yadda yadda.   
   > I have no clue how to use cmd. All i know how to do is boot a floppy disk   
   and find directories.   
   >   
   > I'm trying to link my internet to a virtual modem so I can run an old   
   program that can't use modern WLAN.   
      
   My guess is that Cygwin cannot access the hardware of the host it's   
   running on directly.   
      
   > Any help is appreciated? Hopefully this little forum isn't dead.   
      
   This forum is about CBM machines. I cannot see you are relating to   
   Commodore. You might want to post this into alt.folklore.computers   
   although I think Windows XP is too new for this group.   
   --   
   Andreas   
      
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