Subj : Re: New to Tcpser, Don't know cmd
To   : mpej00@gmail.com
From : Andreas Kohlbach
Date : Tue Sep 17 2019 04:50 pm

On Tue, 17 Sep 2019 11:12:52 -0700 (PDT), mpej00@gmail.com wrote:
>
> Hey, trying to emulate a modem to work on my old computer running XP
> Pro x32. Have Cygwin downloaded, and have tcpser 1.0rc11
> downloaded. Looking at the read me I'm trying to put in the sample
> they give, but I have no clue what it means. This is the sample:
>
> tcpser -d /dev/ttys0 -s 38400 -l 7 -tsSiI -i "s0=1" -p 6400
>
> So I'm in cmd inputting the following (its automatically going c:\Documents 
and Settings\Administrator>)
>
> desktop\tcpser1.0rc11\tcpser\ d /dev/ttys0 s 38400 l 7 tsSiI i "s0=1" p 6400
>
> But all it says is that its not an internal command, yadda yadda yadda.
> I have no clue how to use cmd. All i know how to do is boot a floppy disk and 
find directories.
>
> I'm trying to link my internet to a virtual modem so I can run an old program 
that can't use modern WLAN.

My guess is that Cygwin cannot access the hardware of the host it's
running on directly.

> Any help is appreciated? Hopefully this little forum isn't dead.

This forum is about CBM machines. I cannot see you are relating to
Commodore. You might want to post this into alt.folklore.computers
although I think Windows XP is too new for this group.
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