From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from gate.ufw2.com([216.163.19.158]) (1637 bytes) by braille.uwo.ca via smail with P:esmtp/D:aliases/T:pipe (sender: ) id for ; Tue, 19 Sep 2000 19:14:50 -0400 (EDT) (Smail-3.2.0.102 1998-Aug-2 #2 built 1999-Sep-5) Received: from [216.163.21.20] by gate.ufw2.com for speakup@braille.uwo.ca id SAA27154; Tue Sep 19 18:14:53 2000 Received: from hardb ([216.163.21.59]) by mail.ufw2.com (Build 101 8.9.3/NT-8.9.3) with SMTP id SAA00132 for ; Tue, 19 Sep 2000 18:14:52 -0500 Message-Id: <3.0.6.32.20000919182321.007c9b40@mail.ufw2.com> X-Sender: bharding@mail.ufw2.com X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Light Version 3.0.6 (32) Date: Tue, 19 Sep 2000 18:23:21 -0500 Subject: getting extra pcmcia slots for extra serial ports in a laptop, or an easy way to get large files from a laptop to a desktop or vice versa Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" To: speakup@braille.uwo.ca From: Brent Harding List-Id: I was told about a mechanism called laplink that would hook a desktop to a laptop. The problem with it seems to be that it needs both a serial and parallel port connection on both machines. I have a serial port free on the desktop, parallel is taken by the printer, not so serious a problem necessarily, but the laptop's serial port is taken by the dectalk express, something I can't do without, as I have to know what's on the screen to tell it to transfer, and to know when it completes. I have a modem in one pcm slot, and something else in the other, not sure why it's there. Is there a way to get a third slot, so I can put in another serial port to satisfy laplink, and is it necessary to use the serial connection at all?