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Short: Virtual serial.device for AmiTCP
Author: Sam Yee (samy@sfu.ca | sam_yee@res.com; fido: 1:153/765)
Uploader: samy@sfu.ca
Type: comm/net
netser is a virtual device driver for accessing remote serial ports as
if they were local. Currently, it only supports TCP/IP with the
AmiTCP package. Support for other packages are planned. netser
emulates low-level serial device commands over the network. As a
result, your telecommunication (or "comm") program does not know, nor
does it care, where your serial port is really located. As you will
see, netser allows you to do things that have never been possible
before!
Suppose you are running a two machine network at home through a
parallel port or Ethernet card. Wouldn't it be nice if one machine
could access the other machine's serial port? You can conveniently
call out to a BBS on any of the machines. You may even run a two line
BBS without buying a multi-serial card! And if you want to run a big
BBS, but you don't have enough expansion slots to populate with serial
cards. What you can do is get another (slower) machine and connect
the two together with Ethernet. netser will allow the BBS machine to
use the other machine's ports.
With netser and internet, you may run your favorite comm program on
your friend's serial port, which may be half way across the world.
This will save you long distance charges.
Now that Amiga LAN's exist, it would be convenient to dedicate one
machine on the LAN to hold modems that may be accessible to any other
machine on the LAN. (This is commonly known as a modem pool.) It is a
common thing on Unix LAN's. Your company will no longer have to drill
holes in the walls to equip each machine with a modem. As a matter of
fact, since not everybody needs a modem all the time, the modems can
be shared. Any way you put it, your company saves money. Because
most modems nowadays come with FAX capabilities , you can now fax from
anywhere!
And the list of possibilities goes on and on. The fact is, whatever
you do with the serial ports on your local machine, you can now do it
with remote serial ports. Only netser makes it possible!
============================= Archive contents =============================
Original Packed Ratio Date Time Name
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16368 9219 43.6% 18-Sep-94 20:10:30 bin/netser
941 349 62.9% 12-Sep-94 01:18:02 db/netser.exports
722 274 62.0% 18-Sep-94 20:52:12 db/netser.imports
3268 2032 37.8% 18-Sep-94 20:08:12 devs/netser.device
18134 7009 61.3% 19-Sep-94 00:46:48 doc/netser.doc
19235 7300 62.0% 19-Sep-94 00:47:02 doc/netser.guide
518 277 46.5% 04-Feb-93 20:03:26 doc/netser.guide.info
26760 15608 41.6% 18-Sep-94 20:12:06 serv/netserd
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85946 42068 51.0% 19-Sep-94 16:49:54 8 files