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From: pjh@mccc.UUCP (Pete Holsberg)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: Moving stuff from one machine to another
Message-ID: <492@mccc.UUCP>
Date: 15 Dec 88 18:48:51 GMT
References: <485@ur-cc.UUCP>
Reply-To: pjh@mccc.UUCP (Pete Holsberg)
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In article <485@ur-cc.UUCP> joss@uhura.cc.rochester.edu (Josh Sirota) writes:
=Since the old machine has only 360K floppies, he would have to use that to
=transport the stuff from his old non-DOS compatible hard disk to the new one,
=but that's a bitch (40MB!) ... can anyone think of a better solution?  I have
=already proven that it would be faster to use the floppy than to do an RS232
=transfer, even at 19200 Kbaud.

I would be interested in seeing your proof.  I frequently connect two
computers via their serial ports and fire up comm programs that can
handle batch file transfers.  I start up the xfr and walk away,
returning megabytes later.

Pete

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