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Special Edition Using Windows 95 with Internet Explorer 4.0
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Special Edition Using Windows 95 with Internet Explorer 4.0

by Ed Bott, Ron Person
February 1998
Beginner to intermediate content levelBeginner to intermediate
1104 pages
31h 21m
English
Que
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Sharing Local Resources via Parallel or Serial Connection

A growing number of portable users also have a desktop system. They regularly transfer files between systems by using either a floppy disk or a direct parallel or serial cable, and a third-party application to handle the transfer. Windows 95 includes a feature called Direct Cable Connection that integrates the same capability within Windows 95; essentially, you can use a serial or parallel cable to network together your portable and desktop PCs, creating a small peer-to-peer network. The two computers then can access each other's files and other resources (such as a fax modem) as if they were joined by a traditional network interface.

In a direct cable connection, one computer acts as ...

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