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Name: mohandese
Date: August 16, 2009 at 05:58:38 Pacific
OS: DOS
Subcategory: General
Comment:

hi
does some body knows how to use NORTON Commander (NC) to make a network between a DOS 6.22 & a XP. of course NC is installed on both of them.
thanks



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Response Number 1
Name: MWCC
Date: August 16, 2009 at 06:09:45 Pacific
Reply:

Does NC have Networking Capabilities ??????


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Response Number 2
Name: paulsep
Date: August 16, 2009 at 13:46:23 Pacific
Reply:

It only supports to connect 2 pc via serial cable (nullmocel cable) or parallel cable (also cross over data cables).

Please send a reply, if you solved the problem !!!


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Response Number 3
Name: XpUser
Date: August 16, 2009 at 14:46:39 Pacific
Reply:

Norton Commander isn't designed to work with Windows XP. It is for Windows NT Win 98 & Win 95 only.

i_Xp/VistaUser


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Response Number 4
Name: paulsep
Date: August 16, 2009 at 15:47:55 Pacific
Reply:

@XpUser
I guess, we are talking about the DOS version of Norton Commander.

@mohandese
As far as I know, you have to run the same version of Norton Commander on both PCs.
So if you will use it, to connect a DOS machine with a WinXP machine, on the windows machine, you have to run also the DOS version in command prompt environment.

Please send a reply, if you solved the problem !!!


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Response Number 5
Name: mohandese
Date: August 16, 2009 at 21:30:09 Pacific
Reply:

sorry ! I didn't said that I have NC on both computers & want to connect them via com cable.
THis is what I did :

Command + Terminal Emulator + Setting + Line
There I selected my desire options ( port , baudrate ,...)

then when I saw that the cable ic connected correctly, I did so :
Left( or Right ) + Link + Master (on XP) + Link button

exactly the same on DOS , but DOS is Slave.

then when I clicked link button , NC on XP hung!!

solution ??

thanx


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Response Number 6
Name: XpUser
Date: August 17, 2009 at 06:44:41 Pacific
Reply:

Solution: None! NC won't work with XP.

i_Xp/VistaUser


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Response Number 7
Name: paulsep
Date: August 17, 2009 at 07:57:15 Pacific
Reply:

Solution none, except you use NCs own serial link function.

Please send a reply, if you solved the problem !!!


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Response Number 8
Name: mohandese
Date: August 17, 2009 at 21:16:58 Pacific
Reply:

XpUser !
Forget about the XP. because I ran NC on it & it's a program under DOS ! so there is no problem !!

I did it. I could see DOS's C drive on XP , but it is very very slow. because when I typed "cd" command , it took about 5 min to do it !!
I just want to know is there any setting thet I didn't set?

:-|


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Response Number 9
Name: paulsep
Date: August 18, 2009 at 08:24:53 Pacific
Reply:

Serial connections are in general slow, but you might have to set the baud rate.
As I know in DOS the standard baud rate is 9600 and can be set to 115200.
You have to check this also in Windows device manager under serial devices.

Please send a reply, if you solved the problem !!!


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Response Number 10
Name: mohandese
Date: August 18, 2009 at 20:56:10 Pacific
Reply:

Thanks for your reply

but I tried both of them & the result was the same.
It will be better if I use parallel port ?

Impossible is nothing !!!


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Response Number 11
Name: mohandese
Date: August 19, 2009 at 04:26:22 Pacific
Reply:

How a silly solution it has!!!
I just did it between two DOS machines!

But I think it's very bad that it's very very slow on XP!

by the way, thanks all of you... :-)

Impossible is nothing !!!


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Response Number 12
Name: n5fee
Date: August 30, 2009 at 06:31:02 Pacific
Reply:

You could use laplink 3 using a parallel cable. It is much faster than the serial connection. I used to do this between two dos machines all the time. You have to make a simple adapter cable between the two db25 connectors used o n the pc's printer output connection. You can google for cable connections. I think there was a couple of different cable pin outs depending on exactly which version of dos laplink you use. Lap link can also use a serial null modem line norton.
Dallas


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