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From: fdc@watsun.cc.columbia.edu (Frank da Cruz)
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Subject: Re: File transfer using a parallel port
Date: 7 Dec 1998 17:02:38 GMT
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In article <366BE49C.F62C11EB@vega.co.uk>,
Darren Harvey <dharvey@vega.co.uk> wrote:
: I'm trying to transfer some large files (10Mb), on a regular basis,
: between two machines. I would like to transfer the files using the
: parallel port. One machine will be DOS, the other running NT (4).
:
: Can I use Kermit to sent the files between the machines. ie set port
: lpt1 doesn't work - can I set up com3 to be the parallel printer port?
: Any ideas or other suggestions would be much welcomed?????
:
Neither Kermit 95 nor MS-DOS Kermit include any explicit support for
parallel ports. The only way to do this with Kermit would be to find
drivers that make parallel ports look to the software like serial ports.
I would not be surprised if such drivers exist, but I don't know of any
concrete examples.
In the meantime, you should be able to use the serial ports -- assuming
they have buffered UARTs -- at speeds of 57600 or 115200 bps with hardware
flow control. At 115200 bps, 10MB should take 858 seconds, or 14.3 minutes,
to transfer with fast protocol settings. Less if the data is not
precompressed.
- Frank