Re: How to link up GS and PC?

[eaiu636@aldebaran.oac.uci.edu (Leif Strand)]

In article <3ldpqh$16j8@rover.ucs.ualberta.ca>,
Tony Yung <tyung@gpu.srv.ualberta.ca> wrote:
>Well, I didn't feel like paying $12 for a null-modem cable that I would 
>probly only use once or twice so I just used the modems on my 486 and 
>][gs and used two different phone lines.  I heard of people doing file 
>transfers with 2 modems and 1 phone line but never fully understood the 
>procedures to do it.

I did this once; the trick is not to connect either modem to a phone
line at all (otherwise the dial tone will get in the way).  Just
connect the modems head-to-head using a phone cable, and put one modem
in auto-answer mode ("ATA", I think).  Instead of making the other
modem dial, you make it go directly to the retrain sequence using
"ATO", "ATO1", or something -- in any case there is a way to connect
without dialing.

--Leif Strand