malpass@vlsi.ll.mit.edu (Don Malpass) (12/01/89)
In article <140@csucis.UUCP> mlc@csucis.UUCP (Cipalla Mike) writes: >The program that you need is called LAPLINK PLUS it will allow you to use >another computers drives from your machine through a cable. It works at >115,000 baud and on Model 70's should be very fast. You can also set it up >to use the floppy drives as well. Great program for copying programs for a >3 1/2" machine to a 5 1/4" machine when you don't have a machine with both >disk types. I've been trying to find something which does this between my Z-100 (generic MS-DOS - not PC-DOS) and an IBM-Contemptible; specifically my recently acquired Zenith 286 Laptop. Simtel's modem programs don't seem to like the Z-100, presumably because they make direct bios calls. Kermit [ S L O W ] can be made to work, and I assume the Z-100 version of Procom with PC-Procom in the Laptop would work, but even with the PC Emulator running in the Z-100 I can't get anything really efficient to run. The Laptop comes with ZCOM which must be similar to LAPLINK (which I do NOT have), but I can't make ZCOM behave in the -100. Kermit is my last resort, but has anybody actually made one of the better things run on a -100? And am I correct in thinking LAPLINK is not PD? I don't need it unless it will play on the -100. Can anybody check whether its documentation makes a distinction between PCDOS and MSDOS and/or whether it says it won't work with non-compatibles? -- Don Malpass [malpass@LL-vlsi.arpa], [malpass@gandalf.LL.mit.edu] ... A concerned and somewhat ashamed member of the only species which DESERVES extinction, Homo sapiens. 11/89