Perfect feedback! Thanks!!
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From: Mateusz Viste
Sent: Monday, May 18, 2015 19:47
To: [email protected]
Reply To: Technical discussion and questions for FreeDOS developers.
Subject: Re: [Freedos-devel] Lap Link-ish
Hi,
Usually the best way is to copy the behavior of existing commercial
software :) reasons:
- they usually had done some minimal user-ergonomy testing already
- users are... well, used to it already
Now, if I had to speak from my experience of using such tool, what I'd
expect as a user from a lap-linkish software, is:
at the minimum:
- present a side-to-side directory browser interface, where at least
one side can be used to view a remote filesystem and copy files back and
forth
- support for copies via parallel port or RS-232 (with configurable
speeds)
- guarantee reliability (crc on blocks)
would-be-nice-but-could-live-without:
- on-the-fly compression to make copy faster
- support for copy via the network, if both machines have a packet
driver running
- an synchronization option to synch entire directory tries
HTH :)
Mateusz
On 19/05/2015 01:14, J.K. Benedict wrote:
> Based on directionless observations, I have setup a second FreeDOS
> machine. Both are also dev environments.
>
> I was thinking of tackling the laplink-style copy (for many reasons,
> such as reliability and preserving nostalgia)
>
> Goal 1 = copy from target to destination via LPT port
>
> Goal 2 = any other desired method, such as serial ports? USB (male to
> male, obviously)
>
> Coding to show a direction and out my free time where my ideas are.
> Feedback/thoughts welcomed, such as what to "name" the program
> (portlink?), any desired argument flag format? IE, retries, recursive,
> timeout, compression?
>
> I am staging out the arguments later as I want to ensure end to end data
> copy.
>
> Cordialmente,
>
> --jkbs
>
>
>
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