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direct connection

In computing, connection between two computers via cable to transfer files without the intermediary of a network or online service. Each computer must be running communications software using the same protocols for file transfers. If the computers are in the same room, they can be connected using a special type of serial cable known as a null modem cable; if they are connected via telephone lines each must have a modem so that one can dial the other.

There are several software packages designed for this purpose; one of the market leaders is Laplink.



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The steamer which crossed the Pacific from Yokohama to San Francisco made a direct connection with that from Hong Kong, and it could not sail until the latter reached Yokohama; and if Mr.
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Cornelius himself did not much press this point, since, even supposing that the paper should turn up, it could not have any direct connection with the correspondence which constituted the crime.
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Again, there was no direct connection between the hound and the man's death.
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