On Thu, 13 Jun 2002, SM Ling wrote:

>Anyone know of a good LPT to LPT transfer program apart from Laplink for
>DOS/Win platform? or even better a faster way to do so (USB is not so
>universal here, and various ethernet NIC configuration is painful).
>
>I have a need to transfer data  from computer to computer, the DirectCable
>included in ms is too slow.

Norton and PcAnywhere among others, have such software. It will never be
really really fast. At most as fast as a 10MBps ethernet used point to
point in my experience.

Nowadays I install Linux and use the PLIP. It is slow but very very
reliable and you can let it run overnight with no problems. Unless a disk
is filled (for example by foolishly copying /dev/*) it will work.

(PLIP connects two Linux machines and appears as a ethernet device on
either end. Thus normal tools like ftp can be used in both directions.
There is no 'host' and 'slave' and neither computer is disabled while
using this).

Peter

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