Subj : Re: New to Tcpser, Don't know cmd
To   : Andreas Kohlbach
From : mpej00@gmail.com
Date : Tue Sep 17 2019 02:55 pm

On Tuesday, September 17, 2019 at 4:50:59 PM UTC-4, Andreas Kohlbach wrote:
> 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.
> --
> Andreas
>
> My random thoughts and comments
> https://news-commentaries.blogspot.com/

Whoops. In the readme of tcpser they listed this group and another to go to if 
you had questions. I saw that it was C64 stuff and just figured it was a 
multiple topic forum. Sorry about that!

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