Connecting 2 computers via serial port

I have run serrecv. Always the message is the same I don't know if this program doesn't run on Windows XP Can anyone help me, please??? Or tell me where is the source code of a program like this??? Thank You in advance Oscar. Re: serrecv. I'm having the same problem. Does anyone know why it does this?

I require assistance regarding the complete compilation and execution of the project! Can someone explain what is wrong? But cant we run the same on Turbo?

Please help me out! Actually, i have cable with me! And want to perform the actions through the coding! DOS version of serrecv. Thank to gomorgan89 that wrote the codes of serrecv. I love them all. I need the code of serrecv. May be they are implemented in turbo C or C-ansi. Anyone knows the location in the internet source code are? Thank you eddy. Re: DOS version of serrecv. I've been having the same problem.

Tell me how Error messages Oct I recentiy down loaded source code for. When i tried to compile it on win-xp turbo compiler i got too many error messages. Flow Control? I liked the article, however it makes no mention of flow control If you added flow control support, you could transfer much more than bytes at a time which is quite a small amount of data for two computers sitting next to each other. Just passing it a string would setup the baudrate AND flow control.

That function with a string such as "96,N,8,1,x" would eliminate that switch statment and would build the DCB with the appropriate values. Good article! Re: Flow Control? Why is bytes the magic number?

I did find the article to be very good and it sure does give a great explanation of serial communication programming. However, due to the small buffer size and the lack of hardware flow control i. If the two computers were a thousand miles apart, I can see taking the precautions of slower data transfer, but since the computers are a few feet away, there's no reason not to transfer data at a higher and faster rate.

Another reason I think think hardware flow control should have been mentioned is for the transfer of binary data. In other words, data that can have a value of 0 through Those fall between 0 and so in some systems, the file's data can be confused as flow control commands.

In all fairness, that wouldn't happen in the code above because the transfer method is proprietary, yet someone may want to adapt the code to do RS communications and that's where they may hit some problems. All in all, the author got 5 points from me for submitting the article. The reason I ask is because I want to send out about 1K of data to a device, and the data needs to be in Hex but displayed as characters.. I know, weird. I want to send the block as a 'whole' and just wanted to make sure that I could redefine the as ish and still be ok.

The device and the computer are inches apart, and fortuenately, the handshaking is a non issue becuase of the relatively low speed of 56k. So I have successfully connected two computers together using r serial ports with a null modem. The instructions I have used are located here. It is completely feasible and is in fact the essence of pre-GUI Unix'es, circa , that this was the only modus operandi available to connect a console terminal to a Unix computer.

The legacy of this convention is still with us and it is not anachronistic though perhaps obscure and subliminal in today's micro-computer systems and available, especially with embedded systems that lack consoles with builtin keyboards and monitors like the actual devices at this website. A CLI command line interpreter or other console terminal interface running on the host is also required. Connect the null modem cable between the serial port cable headers on the two systems.

Under Connection Type, click Serial. Make sure the Serial line to connect to field shows the COM port set in the previous step. Click Open. This begins a communication session with the chosen port.

Related topic Null Modem Cables. Discontinued Products. A drop-down will appear when you check that option. Step Check if both of your IP address and are of the same network or not.

Serial or Parallel cables also called a Null Modem is an RSC cable that is designed to connect to computers situated in close proximity. New generation laptops are not having any serial or parallel ports. In this kind of configuration, you need to set up a new network connection.

In this connection, one computer will be acting as a host and another one as a guest. The host will be able to share the needful resources whereas the guest can only access these resources shared by the host. There are 2 types of serial port you can find behind your Computer. And the parallel port is DB 25 pins female connector. Step 1: Connect both computers using the serial ports if it is a null modem cable or parallel ports if it is a Direct Parallel cable.

Step 4: In the next screen you have to select the role. Specify a user which will allow the guest to connect with the host. And that is all folks for today. In this guide we have learnt 3 techniques which can be used to share files between two computers.

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