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From: dcc@hpopd.pwd.hp.com (Daniel Creswell)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.misc
Subject: Re: PC to PC via modem - how to connect?
Message-ID: <39010002@hpopd.pwd.hp.com>
Date: 22 Feb 91 12:51:25 GMT
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Organization: Hewlett-Packard CCG-PWD, UK.
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I'm busy at the moment but basically you're right in you modem setup.

However you also need a little bit of software that detects the connection
and will then talk to you. Failing that you need access to the target PC's
command line.

Either way you then need to be able to run a program that will let you select
a file and send it to you. There are many protocols for this and a simple one
to implement would be xmodem.

In this case you'd also need to be running a terminal emulator on your end
capapble of using xmodem. I work on Advlink here at PWD so I can help you
lot's more if you really need it...but as I say I'm kinda busy at the moment.

Hopefully armed with that stuff you should be in a better position than you
were. 

Perhaps the best method would be to have your friend run a term-em at his end
and once his modem answers you should be able to configure your term-em to recv
and his to send. Again you need to use file transfer features such as Xmodem.

Regards, Dan