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From: kadie@m.cs.uiuc.edu
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: query: serial to serial
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Date: 25 Oct 89 00:11:36 GMT
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/* Written  2:07 pm  Oct 20, 1989 by kadie@m.cs.uiuc.edu in m.cs.uiuc.edu:comp.sys.ibm.pc */
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We will soon have two PC's sitting next to each other, but
only one has a modem. We would like to share the modem.

_________________________                ___________________________
[            Serial port] ===Cable==>>   [Serial port --??--> MODEM] ==phone=>
-------------------------                ---------------------------
      Machine 1                                    Machine 2

...
Does anyone know of a program that will redirect
a serial port in a machine to second serial port (in this case
a modem) of that machine?
...
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I neglected to mention an important fact: The modem
in the second machine is internal. This means that
hardware solutions (like A/B switches) can't work and
that a software solution is necessary.


Carl Kadie
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
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