Re: HOWTO: KEGS and TCPSER4J to run telecom programs and BBS's

[Jeff Blakeney <CUTjblakeney@sympatico.ca>]

On 27 Apr 2005 22:22:53 -0700, donfanning@msn.com wrote:

>Alright,
>
>After a bit of hacking and slashing ultimately getting irked with a
>botched VS.NET install I went back and studied Jim Brain's TCPSER4j
>program.  Below is what I did and successfully connected in and out of
>KEGS using this "Virtual Modem".

[snip]

Well, I haven't needed to be able to do this but after reading your
description of how to do this, I think you might be over complicating
things a bit.

My KEGS v0.91 Serial Port Configuration is all set to the defaults
(Use real ports if avail, Send full 8-bit data, Simple socket
emulation mode, Modem with incoming and outgoing emulation).

I started KEGS, ran Spectrum, typed ATZ to initialize the "modem".
Spectrum is set to use the modem port (slot 2).  I then set up started
HyperTerminal and told it to use a TCP/IP connection to connect to my
current IP address on port 6502.  Spectrum started displaying RING
messages and when I typed ATA into Spectrum and press enter I got a
CONNECT 9600 message and was able to type messages back and forth
between Spectrum and HyperTerminal.  Hitting the disconnect button in
HyperTerminal displayed NO CARRIER in Spectrum and I could reconnect
them after I typed ATH into Spectrum.

I'm sure if I allowed access through my firewall to that port, it
would probably work fine.  No need for any other programs.

Just so you know, I also sometimes use Spectrum under KEGS to connect
to Syndicomm to chat.  I have Spectrum set to initialize the modem
before dialing with an ATZ init string.  I have a dialing entry for
Syndicomm that is set to ATDTsyndicomm.com.  This should work in
ProTERM as well.

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