7.0356 Rs: Transferring Files (3/70)

Elaine Brennan (EDITORS@BROWNVM.BITNET)
Sat, 18 Dec 1993 11:32:56 EST

Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 7, No. 0356. Saturday, 18 Dec 1993.


(1) Date: Fri, 17 Dec 1993 06:33:13 -0500 (EST) (18 lines)
From: fehrenbach robert j <rjfehr@aardvark.cc.wm.edu>
Subject: Transferring large files

(2) Date: Thu, 16 Dec 1993 18:47:11 EST (16 lines)
From: "Hardy M. Cook" <hmcook@boe00.minc.umd.edu>
Subject: RE: 7.0345 Qs: Transferring files

(3) Date: Fri, 17 Dec 1993 10:40:42 +0000 (36 lines)
From: marcus.banks@anthropology.oxford.ac.uk
Subject: Re: 7.0345 Qs: Transferring files

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Date: Fri, 17 Dec 1993 06:33:13 -0500 (EST)
From: fehrenbach robert j <rjfehr@aardvark.cc.wm.edu>
Subject: Transferring large files

To answer Jim O'Donnell's inquiry re: transfer of large files: such a
transfer can be executed by cable, but a file-transfer program is
required. One that I have had very good success with is Lap-Link; it is
available from Traveling Software, 19310 North Creek Parkway, Bothell, WA
98011-8006. The program is placed on both machines, which are connected
by a cable that comes with the software. At a rate of about 115,000
Baud, even a transfer of the size that you describe (200-400MB) can be
accomplished in a reasonably short time, especially when compared with a
transfer by floppies.

R.J. Fehrenbach / Department of English / College of William and Mary /
Williamsburg, VA 23187


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Date: Thu, 16 Dec 1993 18:47:11 EST
From: "Hardy M. Cook" <hmcook@boe00.minc.umd.edu>
Subject: RE: 7.0345 Qs: Paris, Bn, MS; Transferring files; E-Publishing; Mac

Subject: Transferring Files from One Machine to Another

I can suggest two possibilities for transferring files from one machine
to another. One way might be to get an external tape backup. Use it
to backup the old machine and then use it to restore to the new one.

What I did, however, when I upgraded to my new computer at home was to
use LAPLINK. With it and the proper cable, you can move entire directories
or individual files quickly and with little effort.

Hardy M. Cook
HMCook@boe00.minc.umd.edu
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Date: Fri, 17 Dec 1993 10:40:42 +0000
From: marcus.banks@anthropology.oxford.ac.uk
Subject: Re: 7.0345 Qs: Paris, Bn, MS; Transferring files; E-Publishing; Mac

Jim O'Donnell asks:

>...many people have gotten really
>big hard drives on home/office machines. I bought one in 1991 with a 200
>MB drive and now DOS 6.0 has oomphed it to almost 400. I just had a
>qualm at the thought that someday I will leave this machine. What's the
>most efficient way to transfer a disk load of files like that to a new
>machine?

I confess the move to larger and larger drives slightly mystifies me. Long
before the question of moving arises the problem of backing up must
confront you, and I would recommend solving that problem before even
getting a large drive. Given that your software should still exit on master
floppy sets and is therefore ready to transport, is there really any need
to keep 1000s of small files on the hard disk which then have to be ported
off? People who use really large files (digitized images, very large
databases etc.) will need to have solved the portability problem (removable
hard drives, flopticals etc.) at the time of starting the project using
those files, as these obviously won't fit on floppies. I use a 40MB drive
and find it tight, but adequate. Such a small disk forces me to think
whether I really need to keep all those bits of novelty shareware that I
keep downloading, as well as copies of letters I wrote years ago. It also
means I can back up my data onto about 10 floppies.

I'm sorry, this won't help you with your problem (if you have network
access, I'd give up a day or two and ftp or kermit the whole lot to a
friendly server somewhere, and upload it later to the new machine), but I'm
constantly worried by people who work around me who seem to think their
hard disks will go on for ever and never crash.

Marcus Banks, Oxford