JB>> I'm not a great fan of specialised copying software.
 JB>> personally I prefer to use networking software and
 JB>> just use a generic tool to copy the files across. as
 JB>> such most of my experience is with interlnk under
 JB>> dos, and unsuccessfully with PLIP under linux.

 KH> I've used INTERLNK a lot, too (in both serial and
 KH> parallel modes). I also like Eric Meyer's ZIP.COM;

i've used ZIP for many transfers over the years... works faster, easier and
in tight quarters where most others (like laplink) don't...

 KH> it's tiny, supports both serial and parallel (4-bit
 KH> only, AFAIK) transfers,

oooooooo... parallel! now that's a change!

 KH> and can be loaded from the commandline (it works in a
 KH> Win9x DOS window, too). It's also freeware, as of
 KH> version 2.21. Hopefully, it's still at:

 KH> ftp://ftp.elf.stuba.sk/pub/pc/comm/zip221.zip

it is as i just snapped a copy to update to from my ZIP17 copy...

)\/(ark