If you are like me and are trying to figure a way to connect your windows pc to a linux system without a network card than you may find these links handy.
I've found several sites that offer freeware, shareware, and trialware that connect the pc to linux via tcp/ip connection of the serial port. Here are a few that looked promising. Though I've downloaded several so far, I haven't tested any of them yet to see if they are simple comm programs or something better. The comments are from their respective web pages. If you are familiar with these please let me know. http://www.aball.de/~gotti/tcptoser.html "TCP to Serial Remote modem connection " http://www.midasoft.com/koala98/products.htm "KoalaTerm For Windows 95, 98, and NT. KoalaTerm is a cost effective terminal emulator specifically designed to enable Windows 95, 98, and NT PCs to access host applications requiring VT420/VT320/VT220/VT100 support. Using the Winsock TCP/IP stack in Windows 95 and NT, it provides fast and efficient telnet access to a wide range of UNIX, VMS or other host applications. " http://www.sci.ouc.bc.ca/cosc/tshost/twinsock.html "TwinSock is a free program which enables your Windows 3.1, Windows NT or Windows 95 machine to use any Windows Sockets Application over a serial line (also known as asynch lines) or dial up connection to a UNIX shell account. " http://blitzen.canberra.edu.au/slirp/ "SLiRP is a free TCP/IP emulator over the (C)SLIP/PPP link-level protocols which allows a normal user with a shell account on a UNIX system to act like a real (C)SLIP/PPP account. This means you can use programs like Internet Explorer, Netscape, Mosaic, ftp, telnet and other internet clients from your home machine with only a shell account" http://www.noguska.net/nonags/telnc32.html "Tera Term (Pro) is a free software terminal emulator (communication program) which supports: - Serial port connections. - TCP/IP (telnet) connections. - VT100 emulation, and selected VT200/300 emulation. - TEK4010 emulation. - File transfer protocols (Kermit, XMODEM, ZMODEM, B-PLUS, and Quick-VAN) - Scripts using the "Tera Term Language". " http://www.iit.edu/~hujianq/simpterm.html "A Telnet client that allows a PC user to connect to a remote UNIX or MAINFRAME computer using either a modem or a TCP/IP network. It provides VT100/ANSI Color terminal emulation and Kermit, xmodem, ymodem and zmodem file transfer capability along with TELNET and RLOGIN client services. Chinese support feature, up to 32760 line scroll buffer, excellent easy to use interface. Freeware." http://www.jriver.com/products/download.html "ICE.TCP Pro connectivity software connects 32-bit Windows PC's to UNIX hosts via TCP/IP, and delivers reliable terminal emulation, easy-to-use file transfer and transparent printing capabilities. English, French, German, Italian, and Spanish support included." Also available is ICE.TEN which connects Windows PC's to a UNIX host via serial lines. Includes terminal emulation, file transfer, and printing. Also available is ICE.NFS which is a standard NFS for Windows. Provides a virtual drive for Windows to your UNIX files. http://www.fenix.com/abw.htm "ABW is a terminal emulation product from AlphaBASE Systems Inc. that permits PC's to be used as terminals on Windows NT, UNIX, AMOS, or LINUX-based computer systems running the Metropolis database. Using ABW, users can connect via serial, dial-up or network connections (using TCP/IP) to access the host system. You can even run it over the Internet!" For those who want them, here are over 2000 other pages with links to similar software: http://www.hotbot.com/?NUMMOD=2&act.next=next&DC=25&AW0=tcp+unix+windows+ser ial&RD=RG&FS=%2Ezip&FSU=1&BT=H Andre'