On Mon, 3 Jan 2005, Chad Fernandez wrote: This assumes John is running DOS 6.0 or higher. I can't remember if Interlink was available on DOS 5.0. To set it up, you run INTERSVR.EXE on the "host" machine. The program will take over the machine while running and you can't do anything with it until you exit INTERSVR. On the "client" machine, you must add a DEVICE entry for INTERLNK.EXE in the CONFIG.SYS file. Make your serial or parallel port connections between the two computers and then once the "client" is rebooted, it'll map whatever drives it finds on the "host" to local drive letters. You then copy to your heart's content. It works terrifically. There also seems to be a way to bootstrap a machine that doesn't have the INTERLNK program. There's a /RCOPY option. Anyway, if you've got DOS 6.0 or higher then just issue a 'help' command on either INTERLNK or INTERSVR. Be sure to read all the notes and examples and also check the table of contents as there are three entries for the program suite (INTERLNK.EXE, Interlnk and Intersvr). Good luck! -- Sellam Ismail Vintage Computer Festival ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ International Man of Intrigue and Danger http://www.vintage.org [ Old computing resources for business || Buy/Sell/Trade Vintage Computers ] [ and academia at www.VintageTech.com || at http://marketplace.vintage.org ]

This one here is DOS 5.0 and doesn't have INTR* Interlink sounds pretty useful, but it came a bit late in the DOS evolution. I'll probably combine the ideas from Today with the .BAS ideas from http://www.ibiblio.org/pub/academic/computer-science/history/pdp-11/rsts/dec us/sig88/088009/msbpct.bas John A.