Wade Weisbrod wrote:
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> Now I have a question.  I sometimes work on computers for various
> friends, and I am looking for a quick and painless way of hooking two
> computers together for a data transfer.
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> Thanks again
> Wade Weisbrod
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>

Pertaining to this post and that several times people have asked this
same question, I would like to ask the following:

Back in the old DOS days, I used to hook up a serial cable between two
computers (even MAC and PC) to transfer files using a simple terminal
communications program.  It was a little slow but it worked fine.  It
worked just as if I was sending a file to a friend using a modem -
except that the setup did not use any modem locally.

So why cannot that still be done with windows OS's?  Every OS has
Hyperlink (a simple terminal program).  Most PCs today can handle
transfer rates of close to 115Kbps through their comm ports.  So if both
PCs are hooked together with a simple serial cable, isn't that the
cheapest way to transfer large amounts of data?

If anyone thinks this is wrong, please explain.

Thanks
--
Jean Bourvic :>))

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