Mike O'Connor wrote:

>altownsend{at}dccnet.com wrote:
>
>  
>
>>Tue, March 01, 2005 - 10:37 AM
>>
>>Hi Mike:
>>
>>It is doable already in OS/2 & eCS.
>>
>>You need a LapLink Cable
>>LPTool from Jan van Wijk, available om the DFSee website
>>http://www.dfsee.com
>>
>>LPTool will transfer between any 2 computers using OS/2, eCS or
WindowsXP ( I use it with WindowsXP) and Win98, 2000 etc
>>
>>Works real good
>>
>>Regards Al
>>
>>
>>In , on 03/02/2005 
>>  at 04:22 AM, Mike O'Connor  said:
>>
>>
>>
>> 
>>
>>    
>>
>>>[From a piece on the NY Times Circuits columns about 6 weeks ago]
>>>   
>>>
>>>Q. Is there an easy way to transfer all my files and settings
from an  old
>>>iMac with Jaguar to a new iMac G5 running Panther?
>>>   
>>>
>>>A. One relatively hassle-free way of moving the information from one Mac 
>>>OS X machine to another is to link the two computers with a
FireWire  cable
>>>and let the Mac OS X Setup Assistant program on the new iMac G5
do  all the
>>>heavy lifting for you. This should work with a Jaguar (Mac OS X
 10.2) and
>>>the current Panther (Mac OS X 10.3) versions of Apple's  Macintosh
>>>operating system, as well as other Macs running at least Mac  OS X 10.1.
>>>   
>>>
>>>      
>>>
>Hi Al,
>
>I was using parallel cables back in the days when it was introduced as a 
>standard part of the OS with DR-DOS 5 long before M$ hitched onto it - 
>but *that's* not the same as being able to run at up to 50MBytes/second 
>[on F800 Firewire - 100MB/second] with effectively a no-brainer setup 
>required!
>
>I know what transfer rates I get/got from my Sony Camcorder 
>[iLink=Firewire=IEEE-1394a in that case] to my Sony VAIO Laptop, and 
>that was from 6 years ago!
>
>  
>
I am really hoping for the netlabs firewire driver so I can set an 
external harddrive (am really hoping dvd writer can use it) to my 
laptop.  It has usb but only 1.1.
Andy


 
Yahoo! Groups Links

 To visit your group on the web, go to:
    http://groups.yahoo.com/group/os2user/

 To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to:
    os2user-unsubscribe{at}yahoogroups.com

 Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to:
    http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
 




---