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- From: sip1@ellis.uchicago.edu (Timothy F. Sipples)
- Subject: Re: Norton Commander / Serial Comm transfer program?
- Message-ID: <1993Jan23.003934.4112@midway.uchicago.edu>
- Sender: news@uchinews.uchicago.edu (News System)
- Reply-To: sip1@midway.uchicago.edu
- Organization: Dept. of Econ., Univ. of Chicago
- References: <1993Jan22.050947.421750@sue.cc.uregina.ca> <1993Jan23.002513.3299@midway.uchicago.edu>
- Date: Sat, 23 Jan 1993 00:39:34 GMT
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- In article <1993Jan23.002513.3299@midway.uchicago.edu> sip1@midway.uchicago.edu writes:
- >>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.
-
- On second thought, I believe OS2You will perform this task quite well.
- (You may need M2Zmodem as well.) Both are available via anonymous ftp
- from ftp-os2.nmsu.edu.
-
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