Thank you for trying the demo version of LinkRight.

Installation

The install should be easy.  Insert the diskette into drive a:, open
an OS/2 command window, change directory to A:, type install, and follow
directions.  If you have an a: drive that is 5 and a quarter, you can
copy the files on the installation diskette to a 5 and a quarter diskette
and then install.  Or you can install manually.  No files are compressed
on the installation diskette.

Using LinkRight

This demo version of LinkRight only has low speed serial connections
enabled.  The shrink wrapped version has parallel port connections and
high speed serial connections.

Double click on the LinkRight object from the WPS (you won't use the
OS/2 command line, will you??) on both machines.  Make sure the cables
are hooked up.  Select one machine as Local and the other
machine as Remote.  Under the Connect menu, select which port you want 
to use for both machines.  You should now have a connection established.
The Local machine should have the half window that displays files from
the remote machine filled with the list of files.

After you have the connection established, mark files or directories from
the Local machine by single clicking with the primary mouse button (left).
Then hit the COPY pushbutton.  Double click on a directory or drive to
change to that directory or drive.  The .. indicates the parent directory.
Double click on it to move up one directory level.

You should be able to queue more files to send while files are being sent.

The Refresh push button is to refresh the display for both the Local and
Remote file list.

Late additions

During the final testing of LinkRight, one computer, out of many tested,
received garbled files (500 bytes out of 50K were garbled).  
The problem was isolated to the compression
algorithm.  It was found that if you turned off compression, all files
were received well.  Therefore, we added an option to turn off compression.
This problem is not a problem with LinkRight since it worked well on all
other computers tested, and since the particular machine could not execute
PKZIP properly.  It was probably flaky hardware, but we thought we should 
allow a no compress option.

Technical Support

If you have problems, please let us know.  You can reach me at: 

Jeff Tremble
Compuserve: 71033,3517, OS2AVEN/Other Vendors, or OS2USER/App quest 
Internet: 71033.3517@compuserve.com
Fido Netmail: Jeff Tremble, 1:109/347 (OS/2 Shareware)
Direct BBS: Jeff Tremble, "Local Area" on OS/2 Shareware, (703) 385 4325 
I also watch comp.os.os2.apps.
Voice answering machine (301)762-1151
Fax (301)762-1185
 
If you have a problem, we will attempt to fix it for you.

Marketing Hype

LinkRight version 1.0 is the initial version of LinkRight.  Because of
that, it is not perfect (what software product is??).  By the end of
1993, Rightware will have version 1.1 available.  All registered users
of version 1.0 will receive, free of charge, version 1.1.  At that
time, you will also receive a coupon that you can use for a $10 upgrade
to version 2.0.

Obviously, we will fix any bugs found in version 1.0 for version 1.1.
In addition, there are many features that we have considered, but we
would like to know which features our customers would prefer. So please
let us know which features you would like to see in version 1.1 and 
version 2.0 of LinkRight.

If you like this software, please tell the world.

Good Luck and Happy Computing.

Jeff Tremble
President, Rightware