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In Email, grog@lemis.de (Greg Lehey) wrote:
> Blake Crosby writes:
> 
> >         I would also like to know if that Free BSD will be compatible or
> > have a smiliar program to MS-DOS' "Laplink". So that I cam update files from
> > my laptop to the Free BSD system.
> 
> I don't know of LapLink, but if you have an Ethernet board on your
> notebook, you could use FTP.  Otherwise (shudder) you could use uucp,
> which is also available for the DOS world as uupc.

A simple null-modem cable could allow you to login the FBSD box from the 
laptop and transfer files via rz & sz.  I don't know the advantages 
compared to uucp/pc.


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