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[sindi keesan <keesan AT sdf.lonestar.org>]

Pine works very badly under XP, sorry I cannot easily include just part of 
my previous posting.  Ctrl-^ does not seem to do anything.

I just realized that we cannot access any files in XP with the BL3 kernels 
so we cannot transfer from the XP partition using BL3.

Windows is using all but 8MB of a 37GB disk - we will attempt to make a 
FAT16 or FAT32 partition in the 8MB using linux, and transfer files via 
that and network cable.

Unless someone knows a way to trasnfer between XP and BL3 via network 
cable.

On Sun, 3 Sep 2006, sindi keesan wrote:

> We are on vacation and took along two cameras, an Olympus with serial 
> cable that works in DOS and linux (photopc), which we downloaded slowly 
> to the Toshiba laptop computer via the serial port (it does not do USB> 
> The second camera requires USB to download the photos.
>
> Our host has Windows XP and USB port, also parallel port (we can't find
> our parallel transfer cable and it may not have come along on this trip),
> and floppy drive.  We downloaded photos from the second camera.
>
> He has a wireless internet connection using an antenna stuck out the
> window and a friendly neighbor's ISP (at top speeds of up to 44K at good

> moments).

> Last year we transferred files from BL3 to XP or Mac via a 'DSL modem', 
> uploading an d downloading via a website. Can't do that this time, no 
> hub.
>
> He has a network card and a crossover cable.  We have a PCMCIA network
> card with straight cable, and a separate straight cable (also a crossover
> adaptor).
>
> We transferred the Olympus photos to the Toshiba laptop and the other
> camera (USB) to the XP desktop and would now like to copy them all between
> computers.  The Toshiba was chosen because it has a floppy drive (and
> because we did not realize it has no USB port - the Hitachi has USB but
> no floppy drive).
>
> We have 5MB of 200K photos of old buildings and Indian mounds and friends
> (27 of them) and about 13 500K photos of wild mushrooms (7MB) to transfer
> and would rather not use a floppy disk.
>
>  I brought 2-floppy BL3, and can try to figure out (using XP) which
> network module to use on the desktop.  I have a 16-bit 3com PCMCIA NIC in
> the laptop.  But is it possible to network and send files between XP and
> BL3?
>
> The Toshiba appears to have an IR port, and we have a PDA with IR port.
> How impossible would it be to set up IR in BL3 and transfer files via the
> PDA (which we can use in linux already)?  Does the 'big' kernel support IR
> (with the proper modules)?
>
> Next trip we will pack parallel and nullmodem cables, parport zip
> drive....
>
>
> Sindi
>
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