![]() Start Norton Commander 5.5 on both computers and open the menu with F9 and open the " Left" or " Right" panel, scroll down and open " Link".If not, a connection in Windows might prevent DOSBox from taking the line. Restart dosbox and check in the dosbox terminal (The black second screen behind the DOSBox screen) if the COM port is used ok.Better to set this in the dosbox config file.Check the setting at the dosbox command prompt with " serial1". ![]() You can do this by typing " serial1 directserial realport:COM1" (This is confusing because you are using a cable called nullmodem and there is also the (wrong) option to go for "serial1=nullmodem") Open DOSBox and configure "serial1=directserial realport:COM1".Set the COM1 port on both computers to the same speed.(9600 is reliable on old computers).To test it with a parallel port you will need two real DOS computers. DOSBox has not implemented the use of LPT ports. Use a (serial) nullmodem cable on both computer COM1 ports.How to use "Link" in Norton Commander between an old DOS computer and a Windows 10 computer with Norton commander inside a DOSBox. Both sides are using Norton Commander only one of them is running in a DOSBox.Īll was tested on DOS 6.22 with Norton Commander 5.5 running on one side and Windows with DOSBox 0.74-2 running on the other side of a (serial) nullmodem cable. This setup is used for transferring files between an old MS-DOS computer and a modern computer like Windows 10.
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