From: tomw AT tsys DOT demon DOT co DOT uk (Tom Wheeley)
Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.djgpp
Subject: Re: Zip files needed
Date: Wed, 18 Dec 96 00:58:49 GMT
Organization: Adventures and Diving
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Message-ID: <850870729snz@tsys.demon.co.uk>
References: <5B202213A4 AT fs2 DOT mt DOT umist DOT ac DOT uk> <32B58616 DOT 2F62 AT jk DOT uni-linz DOT ac DOT at>
Reply-To: tw104 AT york DOT ac DOT uk
To: djgpp AT delorie DOT com
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On Monday, in article <32B58616 DOT 2F62 AT jk DOT uni-linz DOT ac DOT at>
     R DOT Exler AT jk DOT uni-linz DOT ac DOT at "Roland Exler" wrote:

> A.Appleyard wrote:
> > 
> >   Please reply to me in person.
> >   I want to transfer my djgpp v2 onto a laptop. That will need floppies. OK,
> > except that DJGPPV2\ZIPS\DJDEV201.ZIP at 1538295 bytes is too big for a
> > floppy. Could I use DJDEV300.ZIP with the latest forms of the other v2 files?
> > What is the difference between DJDEV201.ZIP and DJDEV200.ZIP?
> 
> If you connect your laptop to the pc with a serial or parallel cable you can 
> 'mount' the pc's drive with the dos interlnk program and just copy them. If you 
> want to do big transferes more often I'll prefere using this way over using 
> floppies.

But I actually find it faster to ARJ -m0 the files onto floppies and copy it
across than to leave it copying over a serial cable.  Of course, you can
always go and make yourself a nice refreshing cup of tea whilst it is
copying, rather than swap disks all day :-)

:sb)   please send mail to <tw104 AT york DOT ac DOT uk>   http://www.york.ac.uk/~tw104/
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