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Re: Apple // networking?

Subject: Re: Apple // networking?
From: Linards Ticmanis <ticmanis@coli.uni-sb.de>
Date: Sat, 16 Jun 2001 12:52:43 +0200
Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple2
Organization: University of Saarland, Computing Center, Germany.
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ralmin wrote:

> Windows 98 comes with a Dial-Up Server program which allows people to dial
> in over a modem and establish a PPP network connection. I don't know whether
> it would respond to a simple null-modem cable instead of the "ring" signals
> from a real modem, but it could be worth a try.

You could solder a bridge into the plug between DSR (pin 6) and RI
(pin 22) so that as soon as the other end is ready, the serial
interface always "rings". Though I don't know if Windows gets peeved
when a ring comes in and then the other side has nothing to say
immediately.

-- 

Linards Ticmanis

 The Master said, "The business of laying on the colors follows the
preparation of the plain ground."

References:
- Apple // networking?
  - From: Paul Bramscher <brams006@tc.umn.edu>
- Re: Apple // networking?
  - From: win32mfc@yahoo.com (Chris Morse)
- Re: Apple // networking?
  - From: Paul & Sharyn Bramscher <brams007@tc.umn.edu>
- Re: Apple // networking?
  - From: win32mfc@yahoo.com (Chris Morse)
- Re: Apple // networking?
  - From: "ralmin" <xbiber@bigpond.net.au>

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