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- Path: sparky!uunet!ulowell!cs.ulowell.edu!mbrousse
- From: mbrousse@cs.ulowell.edu (Marc Brousseau)
- Subject: Re: background PC->PC file transfer ?
- Message-ID: <C06qF4.MIz@ulowell.ulowell.edu>
- Keywords: TSR, File transfer, background
- Sender: usenet@ulowell.ulowell.edu (News manager - ulowell)
- Organization: University of Massachusetts at Lowell Computer Science
- References: <jimbo.725820049@edson>
- Date: Fri, 1 Jan 1993 17:11:28 GMT
- Lines: 16
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- In article <jimbo.725820049@edson> jimbo@ee.ualberta.ca (Row Jimmy Row) writes:
- >greetings all,
- >
- >i have been asked to try and find a program which will transfer files
- >between two PC's via a serial cable. the difficulty is that the person
- >who wants to do this wants a program that runs in the background and will
- >not affect the "host" while he is runnung another program on it. it
- >would seem to me that some sort of a TSR program could do this, does
- >anyone out there know of such a creature?
-
- I don't know if this will be an acceptable solution, but I have done
- this useing a 386 pc, Desqview, and Fastlinx with no problems. You
- just have to be able to use Desqview and create a process that does
- not swap to the disk. Sort of like running a communications program
- like Procomm in the background.
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