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[sindi keesan <keesan AT sdf.lonestar.org>]

On Wed, 20 Oct 2004 3aoo-cvfd AT dea.spamcon.org wrote:

> sindi keesan wrote:
> > But how would you use DOS commo to transfer a file
> > from a DOS dumb terminal to a linux computer?
>
> You execute lrz on main system (typing on dumb terminal).
> Then press ALT-Z (for commo upload) and enter name of
> file you want to upload.

I will try this some time soon.

>


> > > You can put another dumb terminal on another serial port.
> > Good idea.  We need to make another cable.
> > I suppose we could even add two more serial ports
>
> You also might be able to hook up a dumb terminal using
> the modem.

The modem is already plugged into the phone line but there is a place to 
plug in a phone.  I think you mentioned something earlier about using
a phone cord between modems instead of a serial nullmodem cable.  Can you 
give more details about this?   We have the two computers already hooked 
up with a phone line between the modems so they can share the line. 
Also a fax machine and a phone somehow connected (phone into fax machine, 
fax machine into computer 2, computer 2 into computer 1, computer 1 into 
wall?).

Would this let me use ttyS1 (modem with phone cord plugged into it) as a 
nullmodem cable instead of modem?  I would have to change the s1 agetty 
line in inittab.  We have no shortage of phone cords.

But then would the modem also work as a modem?  We could put in a second 
modem on com3 or com4, I suppose, and use that for networking.  We also 
have plenty of 14.4 modems but no free ISA slots.  (If only there were a 
way to network the mic or linein port of a sound card.)


> Cheers,
> Steven
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