Bernie,
I'm not certain exactly how fast parallel port is; I do know it is much
faster than serial port -- being bi-directional for one reason, and
without certain constraints for another.
Using serial port to serial port [don't ask me why ... it was one of my
"dumb" periods] it took me two days to transfer everything on a 1GB HDD
to the other system HDD using PC Hooker -- which doesn't move hidden
files so I had to do those "by hand." Why was I doing it? Can you say
"windoze" ??
l.d.
====
On Mon, 24 Jan 2000 18:33:24 +0100 (MET), Bernie <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Good and cheap idea, only problem with this is that if the drive letters
> are to many then the data that needs to be transfered is much as well.
> How fast is a printer cable?
> Serial is something like 115Kbps right? That makes a 10MB Ethernet LAN ca
> 87 times faster. I wouldn't like to transfer big ammounts of data over such
> a connection.
> In my case it would have taken aproximately 5 days!
> //Bernie
> http://hem1.passagen.se/bernie/index.htm DOS programs, Star Wars ...
-- Arachne V1.60;b1, NON-COMMERCIAL copy, http://arachne.cz/
