Mail Archives: opendos/1998/04/02/12:08:58
Good Idea. I forgot about the parallel port. I think MSDOS has a pair
of programs that will make one PC act as a server to the other across
either parallel or serial link - don't need to get laplink.
-Flash->
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>From: Glenn W. McCorkle[SMTP:glennmcc AT cisnet DOT com]
>Sent: Wednesday, April 01, 1998 4:32 PM
>To: opendos AT delorie DOT com
>Subject: Re: Port Forwarding
>
>On Wed, 1 Apr 1998 08:19:03 -0800, Braden, Flash wrote:
>
>> Not with a null modem cable, but with modular phone cable, yes. The
>> hardest part is inducing the ring on the answering modem. Probably not
>> worth your time.
>
>> Much faster and more reliable to go serial-to-serial. If you have an
>> internal modem and a mouse on the same box, you are now out of interrupt
>> addresses. You need your modem to be external so you can put your
>> serial line on a switch.
>
> Or keep the internal modem, and put the mouse on a serial switch.
>Better yet, forget the serial ports all-together. I used to do file
>transfers between my two machines via the serial ports.(10k/sec).
>I now use a laplink cable to connect the printer ports together.
>(this increased me to 78k/sec.)
>
>> -Flash->
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>>> From: Daniel de Haan[SMTP:Zeron AT Mindless DOT com]
>>> Sent: Tuesday, March 31, 1998 5:42 PM
>>> To: OpenDos Mailing Lixt
>>> Subject: Port Forwarding
>
>>> Howdy,
>>> I was wondering if anyone knows of a way to make a modem that is in
>>> one computer usable on another computer using a null modem cable?
>
>>> -Dan
>
>--
>Glenn McCorkle mailto:glennmcc AT cisnet DOT com
>North Jackson, Ohio, USA
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