Just an idea, but... have you thought about a network print server box? You can get these for a few hundred and they come with Centronics port (and sometimes serial as well). You could get the Pic to present it's readings to the parallel port on request - just write a printer driver to access it. Jim ----- Original Message ----- From: To: Sent: 13 October 1999 19:54 Subject: Telnet/SMTP/Ethernet, Possible? > I would like to send & receive very basic telnet commands with a pic or send periodic SMTP messages to my mail server, whichever is easier. I'm wanting to deliver temperature readings from a remote location in the mountains down to a control center 90 miles away which has a wireless ethernet link with the site (soon to buried in the snow). The only interface available is a standard ethernet hub, either 10Base-2 (coax) or 10Base-T (UTP). Prefer the UTP, and (wishful thinking here) a 16F84. I ass-u-me I will need another devce to make the actual PIC-UTP interface, but that only gets me so far. I still need to properly encapsulate the packets, etc. Asking too much? Tutorials out there? I may just put a cheap-o Linux server up there and read the printer port if this isn't going to happen. > > FWIW, I am familiar with SMTP and telnet protocols, and have a pretty good grasp of networking issues, but it's always been with off the shelf hardware in PCs or other related networking devices. > > TIA - Fred > > Get HushMail. The world's first free, fully encrypted, web-based email system. > Speak freely with HushMail.... http://www.hushmail.com >