Gidday Rick
 RF>    I guess I'm not following you...  You can use a serial cable
 RF>    to network computers together too.  That is the way I took
 RF>    "using a serial cable".  Then the file systems matter.  Using
 RF>    a phone line linked by modems -- then the file system doesn't
 RF>    matter.  I don't know how to go about linking external modems
 RF>    together and using comm programs though?
Rubbish! Whether the 2 machines are connected by modem or by serial
cable, or even by network, the operating system of each machine
doesn't come into the equation.
FWIW, I transferred all my Amiga files from the A2000 to the Pentium
using a serial cable.
It's only data.
Regardz
Gaz
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