>> 10 Dec 2000, Christof Lange <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>> CL> 1. you need an appropriate cable (not your printer cable, but I do
>> CL> not know the name of it)
>> it's called a Laplink or nullmodem cable.
> Are you sure it may properly be called a nullmodem cable? I had been
> under the impression that a nullmodem cable is a specially wired serial
> cable, not a parallel cable. I have heard about the file transfer
> utility known as Laplink, but I know nothing about it other than the fact
> it is reputed to be a really good file transfer utility.
Dear list:
First the cable - I have wired up a few combinations with cross wired
send and receive wires with mixed success. Some programs seem to require
more wires than others to be connected.
I use Laplink which I fear is a Microsoft product as it came with MSDOS
6.2
I have had trouble with verion 1.00 not talking correctly with 1.10 but
it might have been that I was running it under DR dos 6.
I have found Laplink generally a good program in that it locates and
uses either serial or parallel ports and works it all out by itself.
Some difficulties occurr with CD drives and HDDs over 512Mb. RAM drives
are found and used OK!
To talk to a computer with no floppy drive working has been fun - I find
TELIX or TERMINAL in win3.1 is a way of transferring the laplink program
client, after which you can run it and get control of the foreign
computer.
Kali
http://www.nimnet.asn.au/~kali
