L.D.
With FILELINK, there are switches to copy files with system or hidden
attributes, copy files in subdirectories, and not to overwrite "newer" files
on the destination machine.
>From Scott Mueller's "Upgrading and Repairing PCs," the transfer speeds of
parallel ports are:
Unidirectional (4-bit) 40-60Kb/sec
Bidirectional (8-bit) 80-300Kb/sec
Enhanced Parallel Port (EPP) 1-2Mb/sec
IEEE 1284 (includes ECP) 100Mb/sec
"Perhaps one of the most common uses for bidirectional parallel ports is to
transfer data between your system and another ... . If both systems use an
EPP/ECP port, you can actually communicate at rates of up to 2M/sec, which
rivals the speed of some hard disk drives."
Roger Turk
Tucson, Arizona USA
L.D. wrote:
>>I'm not certain exactly how fast parallel port is; I do know it is much
faster than serial port -- being bi-directional for one reason, and
without certain constraints for another.
Using serial port to serial port [don't ask me why ... it was one of my
"dumb" periods] it took me two days to transfer everything on a 1GB HDD
to the other system HDD using PC Hooker -- which doesn't move hidden
files so I had to do those "by hand." Why was I doing it? Can you say
"windoze" ??<<
