Hi, i was wondering if i can control another computer through the serial port.
Please, anyone can tell me if that is possible. Can i execute applications located in the other computer using the serial port?
How can i do?
Thanx for your replies.

You can map drives over a serial port using DOS interlnk - I'm not sure if that's what you're asking. It'll behave much like any network, although data rate over the null modem cable is somewhat slow. Some applications may not work with this type of connection

Why don't they make computers that will do what we think we want them to do?

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Yep, interlnk and intersvr allow that. Just to give an example, I installed 98se on a laptop using a serial connection.

Slow? Yes...it took 30 hours to complete the Win98se install. Point is, it did work.

To get started, you need to do some reading and typing help interlnk from the DOS prompt is the way to begin.

Let us know how you're progressing and we can give further help; you'll be back.

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Thanx for your replies.
After i wrote the message i started thinking about interlnk-intersvr, but there´s still a problem: do you have access to the CD-ROM of the other machine with that DOS program?
I think not, i´m not so sure at this moment. I´ll prove it and let you know.

Another option would be to use a remote console program like PCAnywhere. You would need an older version for use with DOS/Win3.x.

No, you can't map a CD drive with interlnk/intersvr - although you can copy files from a CD on the 'master' to the slaved machine.

Sure, there are other applications - I think even the old PCTools shell had a remote access type feature

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