CompuServe Messages

Connect two modems together? If you have modular phone plugs with a "multiple" connection, just disconnect from the wall, leaving the computers hooked together "off line", and all should be well. Next job is to get them talking with "carriers". Load up terminal programs in each unit. On one machine, command +++ATA, on the other, +++ATD. This sets up the fiction that one unit is "dialling", the other is "answering". The terminal programs at each end should report CONNECT. At this point, you should be able to type on one keyboard and see the text on the opposite screen. Still not good enough for transmitting files, although you could get text through that way. Best to us an upload/download PROTOCOL. Tell one machine to upload, the other to download, and find a protocol that both terminal programs know. The selected file(s) will zoom through. For text/data files, you're about finished, except that different machines may use a different end-of-line signal (it's NewLine, or LineFeed, on the Amiga .. with MessyDos, it's the two-character group Return-Linefeed). For programs .. well, MS-DOS programs don't work on the Amiga, and vice versa. You can transfer data files more efficiently using (a) Cross-DOS, or (B) a BridgeBoard. You can even go faster bypassing the modems with a "null modem" cable. But modem-to-modem does work, and sometimes saves playing with connectors and cables. –Jim