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echo: os2
to: Linda Proulx
from: David Randall
date: 1999-11-13 09:26:13
subject: Vmodem

Linda Proulx wrote in a message to David Randall:

 DR> It's part of the SIO comm driver package.  It allows you to
 DR> setup a virtual modem.  This tricks DOS comm programs into
 DR> thinking that they're using a real modem on a dial-up line
 DR> even tho they're being used over the internet.  This enables
 DR> me to use Telix for a telnet client and to use a mailer to
 DR> connect with another mailer over the net for my echomail feed.

 LP> Sound like fun.  So that it looks like I just dialed up a
 LP> board here but instead is connecting to another over the I
 LP> net.  If I ever Inet, how does one get the driver?

It should be on any bbs with an OS/2 file area.  On the internet, any of the
OS/2 file depositories like Hobbes will have it.  Search for SIO*.*.  I
believe the latest version is 1.60.  Most folks find that it's worth getting
even without using vmodem.


                              
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