ssmith@ac.dal.ca (01/15/91)
I am looking for a pd or shareware equivalent to laplink. Is there anything available by anon ftp out there??
pcolsen@super.ORG (Peter C Olsen) (01/17/91)
I've been using ``The $25 Network'' available from Information Modes P.O. Drawer F. Denton, TX 76202 817-387-3339 for $25. It is a reasonably "full featured" LAN which uses standard serial ports at about 115kbaud. This is slower than the Ethernet I have at work, but lots faster than Kermit. I've used it for about six months on two different laptops with DOS 3.2 and DOS 4.0 and been very happy. Peter Olsen pcolsen@super.super.org
TURGUT@TREARN.BITNET (Turgut Kalfaoglu) (03/01/91)
Yeah, SIMTEL has EASY-NET, but it's not too hot. It allows you to define the com ports, the virtual drives and printers. I couldn't get the printer to work, and it would hang everytime I tried it. EASY-NET itself is a bit flaky - it's fragile, and slow. You need to set the link speed to 38K (null modem cable's speed) to get an acceptable transfer speed. But it's flexible. It really is amazing to do a 'DIR J:' and see your other machine's A: drive whirr and provide you a listing :) Oh, something is wrong in the docs too, you need to start the network like: NETSTART fn.ft /R instead of NETSTART /R as the manual says. The fn.ft is the name of the config file.. Basically, I like it, but can't use it. :( -turgut