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to: TOM WALKER
from: KEN HRYNCHUK
date: 2004-09-24 13:10:00
subject: 8-bit LPT cable

TOM WALKER wrote to KEN HRYNCHUK on 09-21-04 07:34:

 ->  TW> Actualy I just did it last week using Laplink and a Laplink Compatable
 ->  TW> Parallel Cable.

 -> Tom, do you know for sure that it was using 8-bit transfers, and not
 -> 4-bit? If it was 8-bit, could you please tell me the version #, and if
 -> it came with any cable documentation?

 TW>  Sorry. Further investigation shows it most likely is a 4 bit transfer
 TW> process. I can use the "Standard" "Laplink"
cables sold at fry's and
 TW> other computer places.
 TW> My laplink also is the DOS version. When I was transfering files on Win
 TW> 95 machines I jsut ren the DOS versio nis a DOS window. For my transfers
 TW> on Win98Se I now use a USB Transfer cable and a program called PC-Linq.

Thanks for the additional info., Tom

   Ken

 
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