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Michael Krieg wrote:
> 
> Santa brought my Pentium fro Christmas, so now I have an
> opportunity to play my son head to head.  I know that serial
> null-modem is there, but what about modem vs modem? I'd
> appreciate hearing from someone who has done it (and how), or
> a bona fide "Can't do it..." from an expert.  Thanks for your
> help.

Can do it... Not practical though.
If you're talking really local, go buy some cheap 
twenty dollar network cards, two terminators, two T's, and
a small length of cable.

Connecting locally:
1.  on the first modem, put in the regular initialization string,
then AT X1, then AT H1.
2. On the second modem, put in the regular initialization string,
then AT A

They SHOULD connect.

OOPS ! I didnt answer your original question though.
You said you wanted to play multiplayer games.
Well, with Doom, you should change the modem.cfg of the 
first computer so that X1 is in the initialization string
and that AT H1 REPLACES the dial prefix.
On the second computer, change the modem.cfg so that
AT A is the dial string.
Run "sersetup -dial" on both computers (dont put a phone number
in there)
I HAVENT TESTED THIS (although it wont break anything), so
i dont know if it will work perfectly.
If you have trouble with the game starting, you might
have to use the "-player" parameter of sersetup.
Just type "sersetup -player 1 -dial" on the first,
and  type "sersetup -player 2 -dial" on the second.
I hope that works (i dont have two computers right here
to test it, sorry) :')