On 27 Apr 98 11:15am, Tom Rutherford wrote to George Fliger:
 TR> On 24 Apr 98  08:45:54, George Fliger said this to Tom
 TR> Rutherford about "Confused":
 GL> If you're connected to the internet by an "ethernet or other such
 GL> high-speed connection" what use would you have for a modem (in that
 GL> usage)?  Seems to me that digital lines (such as above) and modems are
 GL> mutually exclusive.
 TR> I think we were talking about Ray Gwinn's Vmodem driver...which
 TR> is, I'll admit, kinda off topic.  :-(  Sorry 'bout that.  But,
 TR> the Vmodem (Virtual modem) apparently allows modem-like
 TR> functions over digital lines.  Not sure what the advantage
 TR> would be, though.
 GF> It allows TELNET capabilities within programs that do not provide such
 GF> support natively.  It also allows your terminal package to dial a
 GF> 32-bit IP address just like a telephone number.
 TR> Yep.  I just read (and posted) the introduction to the Vmodem
 TR> docs. Kinda nifty, actually.  :-)  Now, I'm curious as to how
 TR> to get Vmodem to work.  Unfortunately, I don't have anything
 TR> PPP'able to play with it on. :-(
It's pretty simple, really.  To create the Vmodem port, modify the line
in your CONFIG.SYS that loads SIO.SYS, adding something like the
following:
   DEVICE=C:\SIO\SIO.SYS (COM2:115200,,,-) (COM3,INTERNET:3E8,NONE:4)
This is how my system is set up.  COM2 is where my Courier V.Everything
is currently at and the COM3 setting is the Vmodem port.  You can define
the Vmodem port as anything you want as long as you can define that port
(COMx) in your terminal or communications package.  Since a typical comm
package needs the port name, address and IRQ defined, you can see that
those are defined in the above statement for COM3.  The INTERNET
statement tells SIO that it will be creating a virtual port for Vmodem
and reporting it as COM3.  From this point you simply set up your comm
package to use COM3.
From here you dial up your ISP and get connected.  Next run Vmodem.
Third, start up your comm package.  To connect to someone on the
internet supporting Vmodem (Bob Juge's system is a fine example) simply
dial their 32-bit IP address, i.e., ATDT206*86*27*1.  Notice I use an
asterisk to represent the period for the dotted notation since there's
no period on the normal telephone pad.
Once you're done, end your comm package then vmodem like any normal
package.  Pretty slick.
BTW, you can do this with Peter Norloff's OS/2 BBS also.
George
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