jojo@speedy.WISC.EDU (Jon Wesener) (11/03/87)
I've been thinking of putting my old pc to use as a file-server for my A500. Reasoning? I can get a CHEAP/SLOW 30meg hard disk for it (compared to expensive and possibly non-existent for my A500) and hook the 2 up via the serial port at 19.2. this isn't the fastest I know, but if I just used it for archiving it would probably beat stacks of little floppys and indexing them. Now, would it be possible to create a device to handle the serial port so that I could say "copy pc:file file". I know I could probably write a set of generic routines like get, put and list as an alternative which know about the serial port and pc. which protocol should I use, Since I won't be connecting the 2 over noisy telephone lines, xmodem seems too slow, some windowing protocol perhaps? Lastly, this may sound bazarre even if the above hasn't, but would it be possible to use the parallel port to connect the 2 and sort of increase my throughput by 8???? And if this is possible, how does one go about doing it!!!! --j jon wesener jojo@speedy.wisc.edu "remember kids, just say NO! to MSDOS"