moving data between PCs

I have 2 identical PCs and a monitor with a button that switches
between the two. I would like to pass daata between the two with a
serial port without addind hardware.Is that capability built in? I
have an old procomm that I have not used in years but would like to
investigate other options. win98se

Fan924 wrote:
I have 2 identical PCs and a monitor with a button that switches
between the two. I would like to pass daata between the two with a
serial port without addind hardware.Is that capability built in? I
have an old procomm that I have not used in years but would like to
investigate other options. win98se


unless it's a small amount of data, a serial port would be very slow

either network the machines or do it the simplke way
and use a USB thumb drive

Fan924 wrote:
I have 2 identical PCs and a monitor with a button that switches
between the two. I would like to pass daata between the two with a
serial port without addind hardware.Is that capability built in? I
have an old procomm that I have not used in years but would like to
investigate other options. win98se


unless it's a small amount of data, a serial port would be very slow

either network the machines or do it the simplke way
and use a USB thumb drive

Fan924 wrote:
I have 2 identical PCs and a monitor with a button that switches
between the two. I would like to pass daata between the two with a
serial port without addind hardware.Is that capability built in? I
have an old procomm that I have not used in years but would like to
investigate other options. win98se

Fan924:

It depends on how MUCH data you are talking about and how OFTEN you
want to move it.

If it is a one time thing I would, temporarily, install one PC's hard
drive in the other as a slave and copy what I needed.

If it is an ongoing process and, especially if it is bi-directional, I
would go to the trouble of installing NICs and set up a 2 PC network.

As a last resort You could use the "Direct Cable Connection" function
described he

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/305621

HTH & GL

John

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Fan924 wrote in

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I have 2 identical PCs and a monitor with a button that
switches between the two. I would like to pass daata
between the two with a serial port without addind
hardware.Is that capability built in? I have an old procomm
that I have not used in years but would like to investigate
other options. win98se

If you have functional USB ports in BOTH machines, a Flash drive
is the best solution.

I used to use 2 /different/ machines with a KVM all the time (I
haven't turned the old one on for months, but it still works
beautifully - 12 years old, 95B :-) and only had USB on the
newer machine (I yet have to plug anything into it), so I used
to burn CD-RW's and copy stuff that way - or floppies if there
was little data, splitting a 3.5 MB file between 3 disks is the
worst case I remember.

The serial port would work although possibly only in DOS, but
even if you found a Win program, it would still be way too slow
for a permanent solution. Plus a bit of a hassle messing around
with the software.

Total Commander has a "PORT connection to other PC" function,
which, judging by the rest of that INVALUABLE program should
work pretty well, but I have never tried it.

He talks about it he

http://www.ghisler.com/efaqport.htm


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Fan924 wrote in

oups.com:

I have 2 identical PCs and a monitor with a button that
switches between the two. I would like to pass daata
between the two with a serial port without addind
hardware.Is that capability built in? I have an old procomm
that I have not used in years but would like to investigate
other options. win98se

If you have functional USB ports in BOTH machines, a Flash drive
is the best solution.

I used to use 2 /different/ machines with a KVM all the time (I
haven't turned the old one on for months, but it still works
beautifully - 12 years old, 95B :-) and only had USB on the
newer machine (I yet have to plug anything into it), so I used
to burn CD-RW's and copy stuff that way - or floppies if there
was little data, splitting a 3.5 MB file between 3 disks is the
worst case I remember.

The serial port would work although possibly only in DOS, but
even if you found a Win program, it would still be way too slow
for a permanent solution. Plus a bit of a hassle messing around
with the software.

Total Commander has a "PORT connection to other PC" function,
which, judging by the rest of that INVALUABLE program should
work pretty well, but I have never tried it.

He talks about it he

http://www.ghisler.com/efaqport.htm


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There is a description of the procedure he

http://www.home-network-help.com/crossover.html

It may involve adding hardware if one or both of those machines is not
already have a NIC. This is the simplest way for each machine to get direct
access to the other's hard disk drives.
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Jeff Richards
MS MVP (Windows - Shell/User)
"Fan924" wrote in message
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I have 2 identical PCs and a monitor with a button that switches
between the two. I would like to pass daata between the two with a
serial port without addind hardware.Is that capability built in? I
have an old procomm that I have not used in years but would like to
investigate other options. win98se

There is a description of the procedure he

http://www.home-network-help.com/crossover.html

It may involve adding hardware if one or both of those machines is not
already have a NIC. This is the simplest way for each machine to get direct
access to the other's hard disk drives.
--
Jeff Richards
MS MVP (Windows - Shell/User)
"Fan924" wrote in message
...
I have 2 identical PCs and a monitor with a button that switches
between the two. I would like to pass daata between the two with a
serial port without addind hardware.Is that capability built in? I
have an old procomm that I have not used in years but would like to
investigate other options. win98se

http://www.home-network-help.com/crossover.html

Jeff Richards

Nice Jeff, a "null modem" network cable. This I will try.

http://www.home-network-help.com/crossover.html

Jeff Richards

Nice Jeff, a "null modem" network cable. This I will try.