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From: "John K. Picken" <yg473@victoria.tc.ca>
Subject: Re: kermit dos and windows 95
Date: Fri, 8 Oct 1999 01:49:51 -0700
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To: kermit.misc@columbia.edu
On Thu, 7 Oct 1999, john wrote:
> i am a novice trying to run kermit under a dos shell within w95 - for
> collecting files from a dos machine nearby.
>
Why go through the null-modem route at all? MS-DOS 6.22 (and possibly
other versions) includes Interlink which allows you to connect two
machines via either serial (Com) or parallel (LPT) ports. It's easy to use
and you don't need any sort of terminal software.