Posted by Brad on 30, 2000 at 10:46 AM:
In Reply to: Re: Network 2 PCs together for copying files posted by )p( on 30, 2000 at 2:39 AM:
An ethernet card is the best way, but if you just want to copy files between PCs and want to spend $10 to $20 (depending on the length of cable you need), this is a good alternative.
: Always use a parallel cable, a serial is very slow.
: Or even better put a cheapo ethernet cart in each machine and connect them with a crosscable if you don't want to have a hub. It's like copying from a harddisk ;-)
: Peter
:
: : If you download files on a PC other than the one in your emulator cabinet, you may find this useful. You can connect two PCs together using INTERSVR and INTERLNK for the purpose of copying files between the two. This site explains it pretty well:
: : http://www.rosebusiness.com/linkup.html
: : The PC running INTERSVR (Server) must be DOS 3.3 or higher and the PC running INTERLNK (Client) must be DOS 6.2 or higher. If you have Windows 95,98 or 2000, you can run INTERLNK on that one and use the Windows interface for copying files. Otherwise you'll be using DOS command-line.
: : You can connect the parallel or serial ports. The parallel ports are faster. You can use a parallel cable with DB25 plugs at either end for your PCs. You will need to make an adaptor that switches the pin outs as described at the above site.
: : I got my parallel cable at:
: : http://www.cablesnmor.com/printer.html
: : and with the adaptor it works great.
: : Search the net for INTERSVR and INTERLNK if you need more info - your application might be different than mine.