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- From: sip1@ellis.uchicago.edu (Timothy F. Sipples)
- Subject: Re: What do I need between ARCnet card and OS/2 ?
- Message-ID: <1992Aug26.011637.9289@midway.uchicago.edu>
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- Organization: Dept. of Econ., Univ. of Chicago
- References: <1992Aug25.110050.16133@jyu.fi>
- Date: Wed, 26 Aug 1992 01:16:37 GMT
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- In article <1992Aug25.110050.16133@jyu.fi> ap@jyu.fi (Patric Aalto) writes:
- >I just (yesterday, in fact) purchased OS/2 and installed it on my 486
- >machine. I used to have my machine connected to a 386 machine using
- >ARCnet cards (SBT-120 if I remember correctly) and Little Big Lan
- >software. So, what do I need to do to have my OS/2 machine talk to
- >the old DOS machine using ARCnet? Is there any chance LBL will work
- >under OS/2, too? Or is there a public-domain network system that I
- >could use? I would not like to spend money on a new network software,
- >as the LBL has really been everything I need.
- >I hope I am not just wasting bandwidth asking this, but I thought to
- >present this question to you, as I think readers of this group are
- >likely to be able to help me. Am I correct?
-
- If you can't get native OS/2 network software, a specific DOS session
- almost always does the trick. See Appendix E of your Installation
- Guide and/or the online Command Reference under VMDISK for further
- information.
-
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