RE: [amsat-bb] PC Interface via TCP/IP

[Tony Langdon <tlangdon@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Also worth looking to the Fido BBS world (Remember those? :) ) for some
code.  In the early days of Internet connectivity, some BBSs used to use a
virtual COM port driver to fool the BBS into thinking it was connected to a
modem, when it was really using a telnet session.

OS/2 running SIO/VModem was famous for pulling this trick, and it worked
with just about any program (ever seen dear old Telix for DOS run telnet? :)
).

Tony Langdon. 
Systems Development and Support. 
ATC Training Australasia.  Level 2 321 Exhibition St Melbourne  3000. 
Phone:  1300 13 1983     WWW:  http://www.atctraining.com.au 



> -----Original Message-----
> From: Howard Long [mailto:howard@howardlong.com]
> Sent: Tuesday, 10 April 2001 6:49
> To: Pieter Ibelings
> Cc: amsat-bb@AMSAT.Org
> Subject: RE: [amsat-bb] PC Interface via TCP/IP
> 
> 
> Pieter
> 
> > I am working on a satellite tracking software and I want to 
> add antenna
> > tracking capability. I was thinking of handling the commands through
> TCP/IP.
> 
> This might help you...
> 
> http://www.taltech.com/TALtech_web/products/tcpcom.html 
> (pretend your COM
> port is a TCP port & telnet to it)
> 
> or this...
> 
> http://www.spartacom.com/products/saps.htm (Proprietary SMB 
> based com port
> sharing software)
> 
> They're both very expensive.
> 
> I'm dabbling in doing this myself at the moment. For Windoze 
> if needs device
> drivers writing for it, and it's been a while since I did 
> that! It's taken
> me a day to get the environments built.
> 
> 73 Howard G6LVB
> 
> 
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