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From: tom@mims-iris.waterloo.edu (Tom Haapanen)
Subject: Re: Laplink III and Windows
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Date: Wed, 1 Aug 90 02:40:28 GMT
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Matthew Frohman <mfrohman@digi.lonestar.org> writes:
> However, I asked them if you could run Laplink III in a DOS window
> of MS Windows 3.0 on a 386, thus allowing the laptop to access the
> hard disk thru that window, without tying up the 386.  They said
> that they had not done it, Microsoft had not done it, but Microsoft
> claimed that it COULD be done.  
> Anyone know for sure?

Yes, it works --- I just tested it.  You'll need to create a .PIF file
for it, though, to tell it that it's OK to run in the background.  I only
tried the parallel turbo mode since that's the only one I ever use...

Kudos to Laplink and Microsoft!

[ \tom haapanen --- university of waterloo --- tom@mims-iris.waterloo.edu ]
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