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- From: jc@crosfield.co.uk (jerry cullingford)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.datacomm
- Subject: Re: IBM <--> Amiga
- Message-ID: <15972@suns6.crosfield.co.uk>
- Date: 21 Jan 93 16:32:40 GMT
- References: <1993Jan20.060900.15215@sol.ctr.columbia.edu> <2194@vall.dsv.su.se>
- Organization: Crosfield Electronics, Hemel Hempstead, United Kingdom.
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- In article <2194@vall.dsv.su.se> matt-dah@dsv.su.se (Mattias Dahlberg) writes:
- >Matthew Simmons (zarthac@bradley.edu) wrote:
- >
- >: I have TwinCom or whatever the hell its called...
- >
- >Where can I get this program? I want a program which easely lets me
- >to use the PC-HD from my Amiga, and the Amiga-HD from the PC? Does
- >this Twin program do that, or what?
-
- Almost. What it _doesn't_ do is make drives on the remote machine look like
- drives on the local machine, unfortunately. (big minus point). So you can't
- access files on the remote machine from applications.
-
- However, what it _does_ do is let you read and copy files on either machine.
- (and get directory listings and change directories and probably create
- directories - It's a while since I looked at it).
-
- And you can copy things to or from any device, not just disks. So, for
- example, I can print a graphics dump to file on the PC and then copy it to
- PAR: on the amiga. It'll also do copies including subdirectories (although
- when I tried it needed a little sorting out afterwards; It copied the
- directories but didn't get them in the right place (probably since the
- amiga didn't recognise the PC \ as a directory seperator).
-
- OTOH, it goes pretty fast for a serial link (around 19K _BYTES_/sec, according
- to its own speed estimate in express mode, and claims to work between machines
- of the same type too. On the amiga it insists on the standard serial port, no
- expansion ones, so it's probably hitting the metal somewhere.
-
- Worth looking at; if it provided a full networked device capability it'd be
- brilliant, as it is, it's good for copying files, assuming you have the
- disk space at the receiving end, or browsing directories remotely.
-
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