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[Sindi Keesan <keesan AT iamjlamb.com>]

On Fri, 14 May 2004, James Miller wrote:

> On Fri, 14 May 2004, Sindi Keesan wrote:
> 
> > First we have one last computer to set up, and I will try with links this
> > time.   I don't follow how to use links to download from another computer.
> > How do I view files that are on another computer?  links 192.168.1.2?
> 
> As I recall Steven describing this earlier, it is necessary to run an http
> server on the computer you want to transfer files *from.*  You cd to the
> directory where the files you want your other host to be able to access
> are and execute the http server start script there (httpd maybe?).  Then,
> you can access those files form another host on your network and press d
> in links to download them to the host on which links is running.  Without
> using an http server, it won't work.
> 
> James
> _______________________________________________

Do I really just need to type 'httpd' or must I load some modules and 
specify settings etc. as well?  This sounds too easy.

Can't do anything for a while because my partner decided to see what would
happen if we formatted a 1G DOS partition and a 2G Win98 partition, FAT32,
with 1K clusters.  It saves a bit of space and takes even longer to
defragment.

Instead of attempting httpd I simply copied over all the DOS files to the
other computer with Steven's send/receive scripts and ethernet, and then
deleted what I did not want, in DOS.  It was still maybe 50 times as fast
as DOS llpro and being selective (except for the 4 hour defrag 
afterwards).