I need to connect a winxp to a win98 machine via a parallel

Guest · Post by **Guest** » Sun Nov 06, 2005 5:31 pm

Its a long story, but how can I get this to work? I need to put a file from the winxp machine onto the win98 machine, I've connected them with a parallel (printer) cable. There are no other means of connecting them together.

Post by **§ìgñå** » Sun Nov 06, 2005 6:15 pm

might be faster to just slave the 98's hdd on the xp machine ?!

Post by **Bdw3** » Sun Nov 06, 2005 6:19 pm

How large a file is this?

Guest · Post by **Guest** » Sun Nov 06, 2005 6:26 pm

Yea nevermind, I just burned the file onto a cd (I don't have any cdrw's right now

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Post by **glossy** » Sun Nov 06, 2005 10:14 pm

Laplink was the shiznit, back in the day, but i'm not sure what support (if any) it has with windows XP.

"Back in the day" being DOS and windows 3.1 days... backing up files at a blistering (probably) 512KB/s (if that). good times.

Post by **Foo** » Sun Nov 06, 2005 10:45 pm

Quake 1 over a null-modem cable.

Took a lot of messing to get it to work, but we did.

Post by **glossy** » Sun Nov 06, 2005 11:19 pm

oldschool reprezent \m/

Post by **Doombrain** » Thu Nov 10, 2005 12:47 pm

Foo wrote:Quake 1 over a null-modem cable.

Took a lot of messing to get it to work, but we did.

used to play doom that way, it's easy