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From: a577@mindlink.UUCP (Curt Sampson)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.laptops
Subject: Re: Zero Slot LANs query
Message-ID: <2933@mindlink.UUCP>
Date: 25 Aug 90 04:57:26 GMT
Organization: MIND LINK! - British Columbia, Canada
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> limhl@hpsgm2.sgp.hp.com writes:
> 
> Can anyone make a recommendation for one of the zero slot LAN s/w
> packages?  I am considering using one of these in place of buying
> an external drive for a Toshiba T1000XE.
> 
> Alternatively if some one could point me to a review of these packages
> that would be extremely helpful.

I happen to have the exact same machine and interest.  I've played with a
couple of zero-slot LAN programs, but have not had terribly large amounts of
success.
There's one called EASYNET which is seems to be a commercial program, though
it's publically distributed.  I couldn't get this to work at all.

I'm currently playing with one called $25-NET.  It's free and publically
distributed.  I've been having problems, but they could be due in part to using
DR-DOS 3.31 on my AT (which is connected to the Toshiba).  I'm going to try
switching over to MS-DOS 3.3 (which is what my Toshiba uses) on the AT and see
how well that works out.  I'll post a brief summary if anyone cares to see it.

There is a commercial product I've seen called Zero-Lan (I believe) but I don't
recall the manufacturer.  I'm going to go get a demo of it next week.  It's
about $150 per node.

        -cjs    ( Curt_Sampson@mindlink.UUCP )