Msg: 6817 *Conference*
10-08-96 13:55:29
From: BILL ADAMS
To : RICHARD HANSON
Subj: LAPTAP
Dear Richard: I'm an old member returning to the fold. Having recently refurbished my RAMPAC, I'm trying to get back in the habit of using my 102 on the road, instead of my increasingly flaky and battery weak PC laptop. Problem: I need some efficient way to get my files from the 102 into my PC desktop. In the old days I just sent myself e-mail via GEnie, but I can forsee the time when the 300 baud modem won't have access (I haven't tried recently, maybe it doesn't now) and using an external modem with the 102 is another hassle. I dimly thought I once knew a way to trick some commo program into ignoring the lack of a carrier signal and connecting me directly via phone line, but I sure can't do it with the comm program that comes with Windows 95. I still have a null-modem adaptor, and I have notes somewhere on how to use it with the old DOS Mode command -- but that seems to have dropped out the latest version of DOS. I've downloaded Laptap.exe from the Net, but it comes without instructions and I think the reason it hasn't been working for me is that the desktop (again courtesy of Win95) doesn't consider my parallel port COM1. (At least that's my provisional guess why nothing happens.) What do you guys do? Since I'm trying to pick your brain, I should at least kick in the twelve bucks, come to think of it. I'll see if I can manage that on my way out. Catch you later -- and thanks for keeping the board going all these years! Bill Adams