Using serial port

[Andy Collins]

At 01:04 12/02/2002 +0000, you wrote:
>hmm depends, if you can find the right serial port drivers (known as block
>drivers in the risc os world) and the ppp module in the bush box will talk
>to them, then yesr. You may get milage using an alternate ppp driver that
>presents a dci 4 interface to the internet stack

and

>Hi Andy,
>
>Yeah I was looking at doing this sort of thing too but to a Windows box,
>however I don't think I have the RiscOS knowhow to achieve it so I'm just
>going to go the Modem route i.e. bung a modem on the PC and mimic a phone
>line WITHOUT the dial tone - so I hope that dial tone detection can be
>easily turned off... anyone know?

I think the modem route may be the best way for me at the moment (lack of 
knowledge of RiscOs), but it does seem a bit wrong to encode/decode when 
the machines are just 2 rooms apart.

Thanks anyway.


Andy.