Message-Id: From: "Braden, Flash" To: "'opendos AT delorie DOT com'" Subject: RE: Port Forwarding Date: Thu, 2 Apr 1998 08:59:11 -0800 Encoding: 48 TEXT Precedence: bulk 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-> >---------- >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-> >>> ---------- >>> 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. >