Well ... first let's look at your idea. On the sending end, it should work to do
cat < filename > /dev/ttyS1
The equivalent on the receiving end would be
cat < /dev/ttyS1 > filename
but I don't know that it would work. The biggest risk is that the systems
won't handshake properly; to minimize this, start the receiving end before
the sending end. If you try it, please let us know if it succeeds. (Oh, you
will need to replace ttyS1 with the correct serial-port device.)
In the past, I've used pppd to set up a serial connection between two
desktop computers, and once it is established, you can use ftp to transfer
files much as you would over an Ethernet connection.
You could also run a serial console on the receiving machine, and use
minicom (or equivalent) to log in. Then use sz/rz to transfer the files, the
way we did it back in the days of BBS's and zmodem transfers.
At 09:59 PM 1/13/00 +1100, Paul Clyne wrote [in part]:
> Once upon a DOS time there was a program called Lap Link 3.
>
> I'm looking for a program (or set of commands) that would allow me to
>transfer a file from my desktop to my notebook. What's the LL3 linux equiv ?
> On the 'sender' could I just cat the file to /dev/tty1 ?
> could then the 'receiver' just /dev/tty1 > filename
>
> It couldn't be that easy, why wouldn't this work ?..
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