Holy geez, haven't heard that name since the days of bbs's and dial-up
connecting on my blazing 1200 baud modem. In terms of the internet, the
terminal emulation program was great for accessing bulletin board systems
(especially the pirate ones). It acted as sort of the Remote Access program
to hookup with a certain bbs as well as being an archaic text based browser.
Before NCSA came out with the graphical web browser MOSAIC, Versa Term was
one of the best ways to get on to a bbs and, if you were lucky enough to be
on a bbs with an internet gateway, surf the web in text mode. Great little
program. All this nostalgia brings tears to my eyes (sniffle)...
Commands for dialing:
AT <--- tells the modem to get ready for a command (but just typing this
will only result in an "OK" reply. You need to partner this with other
commands.
ATDT <--- attention dial using TONE mode OR ATDP attention dial using PULSE
mode. Again use this with the actual phone number to get "online".
Example: ATDT6145551212 <---- this would dial in TONE mode the number
6145551212
You can also add ATDT*70,6145551212 in order to disable call waiting.
By using a terminal program you can have direct manual control of your
modem. I believe AT0 to 5 (?) set the volume of the modem.
Hope that helped a bit.
on 8/29/01 10:06 PM, the pickle at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> At 22:10 -0400 on 29/08/01, Tracy Keirns wrote:
>
>> I found a box, unopened, of Versa Term software. Includes disks, manuals,
>> etc. What uses are there for a terminal emulator? I seem to be kind of
>
> You can hook two Macs together through their serial ports with it (and a
> cable); you can use a Mac as a *nix console; you can control various bits
> of hardware with serial configuration modes (like routers and such). Lotsa
> uses, most of them esoteric and archaic but still uses.
>
> p
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