If it makes sense for your situation, you may also consider using a
synchronization
program that transfers only the differences between the two machines.

I have used RSYNC (free, open source) for several years as a backup
transport. Every night, the
hard drive of a remote host is sync'ed into a local drive which is then
backed up
on tape. The sync is done on a relatively slow connection (about 1mps) and
RSYNC
cuts the transfer time drastically.

Tal

> -----Original Message-----
> From: pic microcontroller discussion list
> [mailto:PICLIST@MITVMA.MIT.EDU]On Behalf Of Peter L. Peres
> Sent: Thursday, June 13, 2002 8:54 AM
> To: PICLIST@MITVMA.MIT.EDU
> Subject: Re: [OT]: what's the fastest LPT transfer program?
>
>
> 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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