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   
   >   
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   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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