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- From: hharadon@ringer.cs.utsa.edu (Howard Haradon)
- Newsgroups: comp.dcom.modems
- Subject: Re: Freeware Laplink Equivalent?
- Date: 19 Jan 1996 13:23:21 -0600
- Organization: The University of Texas at San Antonio
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- In article <4dh6j9$a8e@pyrnova.mis.pyramid.com>p
- collac@pyrnova.mis.pyramid.com (Paul Collacchi) writes:
- >I need to do a one-time PC to PC transfer of about 100mb. I'd rather
- >not use diskettes. I must use the parallel port. Does anyone know
- >of any freeware program which will use the parallel port? Thanks.
- >Paul Collacchi
-
- Paul, I think that REXX has the capability to write to and read the
- parallel port. This would seem to be a fairly simple pgm. to write
- if REXX will do this.
- Good luck, Howard Haradon
-