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From: zlraa@iceman.jcu.oz (Ross Alford)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.laptops
Subject: Re: Zero Slot LANs query
Summary: fast file transfer
Message-ID: <911@iceman.jcu.oz>
Date: 31 Aug 90 12:08:06 GMT
References: <3860002@hpsgm2.sgp.hp.com>
Organization: JCUNQ, Townsville, Qld, Australia
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In article <3860002@hpsgm2.sgp.hp.com>, limhl@hpsgm2.sgp.hp.com (Lim Hui Lin) 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.
> 
I have experimented with these and found them a pain if all you want is
to transfer files.  They require device drivers, etc installed on both
machines, and also usually want both machines to be running the same version
of DOS.  A much easier alternative, and one I like so much I'm sending the $10
requested as a contribution, is a little utility called ZIP, available from the
MSDOS.LAN directory on SIMTEL20 as ZIP143.ZIP, 18k bytes long.  It is a small
.com file which does transfers at 115,000 bps across null modem lines between
two PCs running ANY versions of DOS.  It can download itself from one to
another by redirecting DEBUG's input from the com port on the receiving
machine.  To do file transfers, just run it on both machines, tell one to be a
server, direct all transactions from the keyboard of the other.  If this
program would transfer entire hard disks, subdirectories and all, it would be
perfect.  

Ross Alford
zlraa@marlin.jcu.edu.au