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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!munnari.OZ.AU!uunet!in1.uu.net!144.212.95.13!nntprelay.mathworks.com!news.mathworks.com!fu-berlin.de!irz401!orion.sax.de!uriah.heep!news From: j@uriah.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: Can I share a modem with Win95 machine? Date: 24 May 1997 10:51:08 GMT Organization: Private BSD site, Dresden Lines: 18 Message-ID: <5m6h6s$2v2@uriah.heep.sax.de> References: <863533504.77882@bamboo.palms.nq.net> <5la5j2$jb5@ui-gate.utell.co.uk> <863563608.94114@bamboo.palms.nq.net> Reply-To: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de (Joerg Wunsch) NNTP-Posting-Host: localhost.heep.sax.de Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Newsreader: knews 0.9.6 X-Phone: +49-351-2012 669 X-PGP-Fingerprint: DC 47 E6 E4 FF A6 E9 8F 93 21 E0 7D F9 12 D6 4E Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc:41577 nigel@palms.nq.net (Nigel Gorry) wrote: > Basically I need to use the FreeBSD box as a port server. I once wrote such a thing. Look at ftp://ftp.netcom.com/pub/je/jeffml/commsrv.tar.gz It expects the COMt shareware package installed on the Windows machine. (No, i'm in no way related to them, i only wrote the FreeBSD server part so my colleagues could use the modem.) -- cheers, J"org joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)