I open new documents on the new machine and then re-write them on the
monitor in crayon.  I haven't figured out how to save though.

tack

On Mon, 1 Apr 2002, Gregg Giles wrote:

> Or just burn a CD. Or do what I do when you've got multi-gigs of data to
> move and you can't use a network: install the old drive into the new PC,
> configure it as a slave drive and then copy all the files over to the new
> box. Hella' simpler than burning multi-CDs or going the email route... gee,
> I hope that guy wasn't a dial-up user.  ;-)
>
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "John Hunter" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Sent: Monday, April 01, 2002 9:33 AM
> Subject: [bits] transferring files
>
>
>
> Just reading the Circuits section of the NYT last week and came across
> this handy tip from a reader:
>
>   E-Mailing Your New PC
>
>   To the Editor:
>
>   I bought a new computer a week before reading "A Port Beckons:
>   Moving to a New PC" (Basics, March 21). The method I used to
>   transfer files (not applications) is very simple. I simply copied
>   the files I wanted and sent them to myself by e-mail. Then I went to
>   my new computer and copied the files from my e-mail message to its
>   new location. This is quicker than using floppy disks.
>
>   -- JOSEPH H. ZIMMERMAN Wilmington, Del.
>
> What a great idea, I thought.  But then
>
> > find / -user jdhunter | wc
>  328302  328355 18517242
>
> Better come up with something else...
>
> John Hunter
>
> PS: I use nnml with GNUS and subscribe to lots of mailing lists.  My
> Mail folder thus accounts for 150,000 of these files.  Wonder what the
> fuck the other 178,000 are?
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