sorrow@oak.circa.ufl.edu (06/05/91)
Hi all (why does everyone say this as their first line?),
The place I work at right now is mega-cheap, and they don't seem to want to
spend the money on getting our machines (a PS/2 M50Z, PS/2 Model 30, 386-33
w/8MB, and Tandy 4000 386-16) networked together so that we can share files.
This seems incredibly stupid, since we just wasted cash on a 24-bit flat bed
scanner (Quote: "We may need it some day"), cellular phone ("In case of phone
calls to and from work"), and FAX machine ("Oh, EVERYONE has one these days").
I guess that just goes to show....oh never mind, that's a whole other story.
Anyway, I have been toying with the idea of rigging up a system using serial or
parallel cables that would let all the machines transfer files to each other by
simply typing some command such as:
C:\DOS> NETCOPY FILE MACHINE-ID
What I am wondering is what exactly it would take to do this. As far as I can
see the following is required:
1. A TSR/ISR loaded on all attached machines. It would handle handshaking
and transferring of files. Possibly, it would also handle taking over the file
transfer (much like PRINT.COM takes over printing a file via a queue).
2. MODE command to set up the various serial ports, etc.
Now, how hard is this going to be? I want to do it all in C (Borland C++) and
am not quite sure what I am getting into here.
Thanks,
Brian
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