Dear list: We have been having more fun with DOS comms programs. Last night I had Arachne browsing nicely from a BOA_DOS server connected via two modems at each end of a lenght of twin with some 50v power dribbled into it. (this is a mock up of a kilometre of second hand phone wire dangled through the Lantana). (CB radios do not work well in this topography because of the cliffs, gulleys, rain and trees)
The BOA_DOS server had PPPDD.exe loading the slip packet vector at 0x60 and Arachne was configured normally except that the IP was fixed at the number on the server. Also the CUTCP program ran over the same link giving ftp between both machines. I did not bother configuring a dialler - just used TELIX top establish communication before loadign the packet drivers. The whole exercise is very sweet, but probably useless unless the DOS server can be run as a DOS router to the LAN. I was disappointed not to get multitasking to work as that was plan #1 to get several com ports workign at the same time. James is talking of writing sortware to amalgamate packets. He is rapt in the program PVDEMO we got from FDISK page I think. Bye for today Kali
