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- Could you post or e-mail me info on PC-Link?
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- >In article <62339-789604946@mindlink.bc.ca> Jeff Holinski writes:
- >In article <3ep27t$g1k@newsbf02.news.aol.com>, mrgloop@aol.com (Mr gloop)
- >writes:
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- >> Msg-ID: <3ep27t$g1k@newsbf02.news.aol.com>
- >> Posted: 8 Jan 1995 11:01:01 -0500
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- >> Org. : America Online, Inc. (1-800-827-6364)
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- >> OK, so my pentium is up and running. I am currently running LW on an
- >> Amiga 2000 with a PAR board installed. When I get my LW for PC, I'd like
- >> to render on the PC and send the files to my Amiga PAR, rather than
- >> immediately buy a PC PAR. This is probably simple, but I'm not sure
- >> where
- >> to start.
- >> Any thoughts greatly appreciated. Thanks in advance!
- >>
- >> Mike Berglund
- >> Minnefex, Inc.
- >> --We're the Kids Your Mom Wouldn't Let You Play With.--
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- >
- >I'm in much the same situation. It's incredible how expensive ethernet
- >cards are for the Amiga compared to the PC.
- >If you're looking for a cheap network solution you should look into a
- >program called PC-Link. As I understand it, it will allow you to connect
- >your Amiga to your PC through the parallel port. (sort of like a cross
- >platform Parnet)
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- >Of course if you have the standalone LW or any other dongles in either
- >printer port you may be out of luck with this solution.
- >
- >Another cheap solution is to store the images on the PC's hard drive. When
- >you've got a hundred or two you fire up a terminal program on each
- >machineaand transfer them from the PC to the Amiga using a null-modem
- >cable. Depending on how your PC terminal program sorts uploads for transfer
- >you may even be able to set the PAR to be your download directory on the
- >Amiga. This would save having to use hard drive space on the Ami to hold
- >the images before you send them to the PAR.
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- >OR, you could bite the bullet and get ethernet cards for each machine. This
- >is the fastest, and of course most expensive solution. You will be able to
- >save images directly from the PC to the PAR on the Amiga about as fast as
- >you can save images from the Amiga to the PAR.
- >
- >Hope this helps some.
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- >
- >Jeff H...
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- Brad Bowman
- Technical Consultant and 3D Animator - AT&T Global Information Solutions - Dayton, Ohio
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