[BL] Newbie

Samual Acorn sam.acorn at gmail.com
Fri Dec 15 09:22:42 EST 2006


why kill perfectly good serial mice? they are getting to be a bit of a
rare breed...  radioshack has both serial (null modem) and parallel
(laplink) cables already cooked up... and trust me... the parallel
approach is a whole lot faster than the serial port could ever
dream...

theres a program called 'hjsplit' (look in the 'garbo pc' archives)
that will be usefull if you wish to take the floppy copy approach...

On 14/12/06, sindi keesan <keesan at sdf.lonestar.org> wrote:
>
> > Or you could get the file into the computer by using a serial
> > null-modem (laplink) cable and the DOS INTERLNK/INTERSVR utility.
> > Sindi can give you instructions for making a suitable cable out
> > of two broken mice.
>
> They have to be serial mice, of course.  You need to solder the plug end
> of one onto the whole (unbroken) tail of the other one and the pinouts are
> probably online some place.  This has too few wires to work as a nullmodem
> cables but works for file transfer.
>
> >
> > Cheers,
> > Steven
>


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