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From: philip@pescadero.Stanford.EDU (Philip Machanick)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.hardware
Subject: Cheap file transfer? (was Re: Mac IISi vs. HP DeskWriter = Fried Mac??)
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Date: 10 Dec 90 19:20:45 GMT
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In article <4281@s3.ireq.hydro.qc.ca>, houlejm@ireq.hydro.qc.ca (Jean-Marie Houle) writes:
|> If you need only a two nodes Appletalk network You can go without 
|> AppleTalk boxes. Just connect the two nodes with a printer cable.
If this is true, presumably one can do file transfer between 2 Macs using
a printer cable and free/PD AppleTalk-based stuff like Public Folder or
the forthcoming personal AppleShare. Has anyone tried this? Sounds a lot
better than shuffling diskettes (not to mention saving wear and tear). If
this is so easy / cheap, why is it not advertized as a "feature"?
-- 
Philip Machanick
philip@pescadero.stanford.edu