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Newsgroups: comp.sys.zenith.z100
Subject: Re: linking 2 pcs
Message-ID: <5667@cps3xx.UUCP>
Date: 5 Dec 89 13:17:43 GMT
References: <518@ringwood.Morgan.COM> <140@csucis.UUCP> <409@vlsi.ll.mit.edu>
Reply-To: urban@frith.UUCP (Mark Urban-Lurain)
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Organization: Engineering, Michigan State University, E. Lansing
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In article <409@vlsi.ll.mit.edu> malpass@ll-vlsi.arpa.UUCP (Don Malpass) writes:
> 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?

Kermit is probably your best bet, unless you have dos 3.x on your 100
and it has ZCOM.  LAPLINK will NOT work on the 100.  Most communications
software talks to hardware and won't run on the 100, even under 
pc eumlation with zpc.
`

I use KERMIT at 9600 baud between my 100 and z183.  Slow, but it works.



Mark Urban-Lurain                        urban@cpswh.cps.msu.edu
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