Message-Id: <199804020059.TAA14406@smtp.cisnet.com> From: "Glenn W. McCorkle" Organization: Arachne Fan Club Date: Wed, 01 Apr 1998 19:32:17 -0500 To: opendos AT delorie DOT com Subject: Re: Port Forwarding Content-type: text/plain Content-transfer-encoding: 7bit Precedence: bulk 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-> >> ---------- >> 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 Visit http://www.naf.cz/arachne/ Web browser for DOS.