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DOS, greatly underrated, has a simple utility pair called Interlnk and
Intersvr.  Once you have a null modem cable between the two computers,
one computer can access the other's drives and printer as if they were
its.  I've done this with a Pentium and an 8086 (PS/2 Model 30): the
great trick with that was that the PS/2 Model 30 could only handle DSDD
diskettes and only had 20 Megabytes hard drive.  With this simple DOS
routine it could handle HD diskettes (and I suppose 2.88 Megabyte
diskettes) and a 1.2Gbyte hard drive.

I'm not sure about OS/2, but I am planning to hook up my two computers
with Ethernet cards.  TCP/IP?  Hyperaccess Pro would do it, too.  The
big problem is accessing the CD-ROM, which is not a physical drive - its
software defined..

Jon Saxton wrote:
> 
> On Tue, 24 Mar 1998 16:52:00, NotMyRealAddress@magi.com (MZ) wrote:
> 
> > Anyone know of a simple DOS tool (such as Interserver, FileLink) or OS/2
> > program that I can use to quickly connect two computers? The DOS program
> > must be able to do the job in OS/2, of course.
> 
> There is such a program but I forget what it is called, LinkRight or
> something
> like that.  I don't use that method.
> 
> > I have read that some folks use PPP. I will too, if I have to.
> 
> More likely a simple LAN setup with cheap Ethernet cards or a parallel
> cable.
> 
> > One more thing: Is a parallel connnection cable wired the way a serial
> > null-modem cable is? IOW, can I use a null modem on my parallel ports?
> 
> Similar concept but very different wiring.  For example, on the serial
> cable
> you have two data lines (one receive and one transmit) but on the
> parallel
> cable you have eight bidirectional data lines.  I have the wiring
> diagram
> at work.  You could find it easily enough via Infoseek.  Try parallel
> -> port
> -> connect
> 
> OS/2 will let you use a parallel cable to make a mini-network and you
> can
> share drives between two computers and copy files from one to the
> other
> using techniques like "copy" or dragging and dropping.  As far as I
> know
> you can't do that with DOS or WinXX; for those you need a file
> transfer
> program.

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Dan Kalish
(kalisode@erols.com)
Alexandria, Virginia
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(no more) 1983 R80RT --> 1000cc    Gostenin ("Gus")  
PS/2 77, Aptiva M30, PC-DOS 7.0, OS/2 Warp (3.0), Lahey Fortran LP77, 
IBM-MS Pascal, SNOBOL 4