Author: Odd Gunnar Malin
Date: 12:18:05 01/23/03
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On January 23, 2003 at 13:40:02, Jeff White wrote: >This may be a dumb question, but I don't know how to do this. From what I >understand, you can link two computers together with a printer cable. The reason >I want to do this is I have an old computer I want to put Crafty on, but the >floppy doesn't work so I can't get everything over. I heard that you can >transfer files via the printer cable between two computers. Is this true and if >so how? ANY help with this is greatly appreciated. Didn't know where else to ask >this question. Thanks very much go for any info provided. > >Regards, >Jeff There where some trick before to do this but I think these app. are vanish if not both computer are old. The printercable can't be used for this if one PC have a NT-based OS without preperations (special printer drivers). There is an easy way to do this if you have any communication program on both pc's. Connect a nullmodem cable to the com-port on both PC's (three leader is enough) and start sending the file with one of the common protocols (X/Y/Z-modem or kermit), start the receiver in the other end. Another method I used a lot was simply to set both harddisk's in the same PC and copy files. The filesize shouldn't be big before this method is the fastest. Odd Gunnar
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