DOS VNC Server

[Chris Bartlett]

>I used to use CarbonCopy to do that.

Humm... now that I think about it, I might have an old version of 
CarbonCopy that will work with DOS.

However, don't you have to start CarbonCopy and then run programs from 
within it?

What I want to accomplish is be able to remotely connect to a DOS machine 
that is already running a program, and have it seem like I am sitting in 
front of it, so I can interact with the program running as if I was at 
the computer's physical keyboard.

>what apps are you running on the DOS boxes? just text?

Yup, text only. Both are "psudeo" servers. That is, they are running 
control software for a system we use at work. It either one "hiccups" it 
can take down the system, and keep people from doing their job (read: we 
pay people to do nothing at that point). Currently, when things go wrong 
at night, I have to drive back to the office to do nothing more than type 
in a few commands to reset things. If I could remotely log in on demand, 
and the software will let it act like I am sitting at the physical 
computer, then I could get the systems back up much faster (less wasted 
payroll) and avoid the drive back to work.

Because I need to interact with the running software as if I was right 
there, I don't think telnet will work as every telnet system I have seen 
starts you a "new" command.com if you will, so I won't be able to 
interact with the running software.

Since VNC lets me do just what I want with Macs and Windows, I figured it 
was a good thing to try for DOS (and along that thought, maybe I can just 
upgrade my two DOS machines to NT Workstations, and run the software 
inside a DOS session, thus giving me access to VNC and the running DOS 
app at the same time... I just have to test the stability of my DOS 
software in those condidtions.)

-chris

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