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ggreenbe@rodan.acs.syr.edu (Gerald Greenberg) writes:

>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).

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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