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- From: Jim_Johnson@abcd.Houghton.MI.US (Jim Johnson)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
- Subject: Re: copy COM1: anyfile
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- Message-ID: <Jim_Johnson.07es@abcd.Houghton.MI.US>
- Date: 26 Aug 92 10:43:40 EST
- Organization: Amiga BitSwap Central Dispatch
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- What you are looking for is a null-modem cable with full handshaking. This
- allows communications between two computers at full speed. The pin
- configuration is as follows for the typical 25 pin RS-232 connector:
-
- 1 - 1
- 2 - 3
- 3 - 2
- 4 - 5
- 5 - 4
-
- |-8
- 6 --
- |-20
-
- 8-|
- -- 6
- 20-|
-
- 7 - 7
-
- (no other lines connected)
-
- I've personnally never tried to simply COPY a file to/from the COM port.
- PC Magazine has a freeware utility called ZCOPY that when run on both
- machines, finds the highest safest transmission speed (for a short run,
- 115K is typical), and can use wildcards to send up to an entire directory
- to the other machine. File names are automatically kept, time/date
- keep/create is an option, and best of all it uses a version of XMODEM to
- make sure the data made it across the cable.
-
- -- Via DLG Pro v0.995
-
- Jim Johnson-
- *** Remember, they're only tools - Not a way of life! ***
-