Modem to Modem direct transfers

Make your connections as shown below using a single phone wire.  If both of 
the modems have the LINE connections hard wired (permanently connected), 
you can use an inline coupler such as Radio Shack #279-358.

  ________________________
 |                        |
 |        MODEM # 1       |
 |                        |
 |                        |
 |                        |
 |   WALL                 |
 |    or                  |
 |   LINE          PHONE  |
 |____-______________-____|
      |
      |
      |______________
                     |
  ____ ______________|____
 |    -              -    |
 |  PHONE           LINE  |
 |                   or   |
 |                  WALL  |
 |                        |
 |                        |
 |      MODEM # 2         |
 |                        |
 |________________________|


Once you get the modems connected as shown, you are ready to do a little 
research about your term programs.

Does one or the other of your terminal programs offer a mini-BBS feature, 
sometimes called auto-answer mode or remote mode?  If not, you will have to 
experiment some to fin	 a way to get the transfers started.  One possible 
way would be to tell one computer to upload and then tell the second 
computer to download.  I have not tried this, but it may work.

Now load your terminal programs for each computer.  Set each terminal 
program for the same parameters (baud rate, word bits, parity, stop bits).  
You will be limited to the slowest modem for baud rate, but if both are 
2400, by all means try 2400 first and then 1200 if you need to slow down to 
eliminate errors.  Word bit	  parity, and stop bits are commonly set to 8N1 
or 7E1, but just be sure BOTH terminals are set the same.  Also set both 
terminals to local echo (a mini-BBS mode may do this automatically).

Connection is a little strange, since you do not have the ring from the 
phone company.  Have one computer dial the other, using an auto dial 
feature or Hays AT command of ATDT1.  Have the second computer answer with 
a forced answer feature or Hays AT command ATA.  You should now have a 
connection that will allow 	 u to transfer files.  If one of the terminals 
will operate as a remote (or mini BBS), place it in the remote mode and 
issue all commands from the other terminal.

One last thing.  If the computers do not use the same Operating System, you 
may only be able to transfer TRUE ASCII text files.  I have heard of some 
BASIC files being transfered, but I am not sure of the techniques involved.  
As an example, a basic a Commodore program would have to be untokenized to be 
transfered to another type machine, 	 d other basic programs would need to be 
tokenized to run on a Commodore.
