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- From: sip1@ellis.uchicago.edu (Timothy F. Sipples)
- Subject: Re: Norton Commander / Serial Comm transfer program?
- Message-ID: <1993Jan23.002513.3299@midway.uchicago.edu>
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- Organization: Dept. of Econ., Univ. of Chicago
- References: <1993Jan22.050947.421750@sue.cc.uregina.ca>
- Date: Sat, 23 Jan 1993 00:25:13 GMT
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- In article <1993Jan22.050947.421750@sue.cc.uregina.ca> biegler@mercury.cs.uregina.ca (Mark Biegler) writes:
- >I was wondering if there was Norton Commander-like program for OS/2?
-
- Yes, Norton Commander for OS/2 from Symantec. :-)
-
- It is now $49 if you order direct from Symantec. (You should be able
- to call 800-555-1212 to get the telephone number.)
-
- Or you can try Mr. File/PM, File Commando, DirMan, XList, or one of
- the other available file managers. All are available via anonymous
- ftp from ftp-os2.nmsu.edu. Check file /pub/os2/00Index for location.
- (Mr. File/PM is right now in /pub/uploads.)
-
- >I require an easy to use serial transfer application so that I can back
- >up my 200 Meg drive to my friend's 800 Meg drive (we're both running
- >OS/2 2.0) before I reformat and install OS/2 2.1. (Our drives are
- >incompatible in the same system, otherwise it would be a piece of cake.)
- >FAT and HPFS support have to be mandatory in the product I'm looking for.
- >(It should also run under 2.1 after to get my data back afterwards.)
- >See, overall, I have too much data to backup to floppy but not enough
- >to warrant some major jerry-rigging to put both drives in the same
- >system.
-
- Now that's an interesting one -- somethink like LapLink for OS/2, I
- suppose. I don't know of such a product (yet). You could use a
- conventional communications program (like TE/2, C-Kermit, etc), but I
- realize that isn't exactly what you are looking for.
-
- If I have a free bit of time maybe I'll write one. Something like
- that could be done in Visual REXX, even.
-
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