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Can’t get direct cable connection to work

3lectr1c said:
I'm pretty sure the WinBook has DOS 6, will take a look at that as well. Either way, I'm buying a laplink/null modem cable. Which is faster - Serial or Parallel? Pretty sure it's serial but just want to confirm.
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Interlnk, as njroadfan mentioned, is actually written by the same company as FastLynx.
The only requirement is that you have another DOS machine on the other end to run Intersvr.
 
twolazy said:
If you get a serial cable and null modem adapter, you can send the slave program from Fastlynx or Laplink over it, using debug or command line.

For command line here is what you would type/run

mode COM1:9600,n,8,1,p
ctty COM1
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Worth mentioning that ctty com1 will generate an endless abort/retry/fail if DOS doesn't see DSR high on the serial port. Some null modem cables wire DTR-CD instead of DTR-DSR (or both), and someone new to serial cables will never pick up on that...
 
I just re-read through the thread and I swear I never saw twolazy link the program and commands before. Did you edit the message later? If not, sorry for making you repeat yourself.

On another note - is Interlnk built into DOS or not? Not home at the moment so I can't just boot the WinBook to check.
 
3lectr1c said:
I just re-read through the thread and I swear I never saw twolazy link the program and commands before. Did you edit the message later? If not, sorry for making you repeat yourself.

On another note - is Interlnk built into DOS or not? Not home at the moment so I can't just boot the WinBook to check.
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Interlnk came with DOS 6.

The purpose of those commands was to bootstrap the other machine. As long as the machine has the DEBUG command, ctty com1 causes it to start taking input from COM1:. The remote machine sends a command to start DEBUG, then the proper commands so that it can send a hex dump of whatever the remote connection utility is (interlnk, fastlynx, etc.) to get around the problem of not having the software on the opposite machine.
 
In the worst case you can use BASIC or almost any program language to write a program that loads the needed files over the COM port. Once having them, you can start them up to do the big jobs.
Afterthought: doesn't W3.1 have its own terminal program?
 
Will have to investigate all of this for sure. Probably gonna go the route described above though, I’m no good at basic. Don’t think it’s installed on my laptops either?
 
intersrv/interlnk can be gotten off the interweb.

There are other programs that can do this like File Marven https://www.briggsoft.com/fmdos.htm and DR Dos 6.0s filelink.exe.

Funny you bring this up. I just got a Null-Modem, Laplink and straight through cables from a Salvation Army store for $NZ 2.00 each. Hallelujah!
 
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Good news!
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It’s got interlnk on it, will definitely go this route. Thanks for the help folks!
 
I finally ordered a laplink parallel cable and a null modem serial cable, so I’ll have an update soon when they arrive.
 
Was the copy of intersvr I found in Italian? Yes.
Did it work regardless? YES!!!
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I’ll bet this makes me the first person to play Planet-X3 on a WinBook haha.
Thanks for all the help guys!
 
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