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