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- From: warwick@cs.uq.oz.au (Warwick Allison)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st
- Subject: Re: Idea for a program
- Keywords: remote, modem, program
- Message-ID: <11070@uqcspe.cs.uq.oz.au>
- Date: 17 Nov 92 02:46:47 GMT
- References: <1992Nov12.071708.20452@newstand.syr.edu>
- Sender: news@cs.uq.oz.au
- Reply-To: warwick@cs.uq.oz.au
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- ggreenbe@rodan.acs.syr.edu (Gerald Greenberg) writes:
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- >Here's an idea for all you programmers out there...what about
- >a program that will allow one to control another computer,
- >remotely via a modem?
-
- How about this scenario:
-
- In the morning, you leave home, and insert a certain floppy in your drive, or
- set-up a certain auto-run program on your harddrive. And turn your computer on.
-
- Then, from work, you dial you home phone, and let it ring ONCE, wait ten seconds,
- and do again (once).
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- The program (which has been monitoring the modem for the "RING" signal all day
- responds by ringing the dial-in lines to your workplace, and sets up the
- connection between computers, perhaps in a restricted fashion (eg. the home
- computer will only execute certain programs, unless a password is given, etc.)
-
- I'd be happy if the program just downloaded files and unpacked them, so that
- I can send stuff home and have it arrive before I do...
-
- These days I just use the Sparc's floppy drive, but the above is a nice idea...
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- Warwick
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