The best method is to setup a PPP session from one machine to the
other. This is arguably easier than SLIP/CSLIP these days.
File sharing is easiest with SAMBA (Windows) or NetATalk (Mac) over IP.
This is also the "easiest" method for any seasoned ISP veteran.
You can also use "minicom" and a serial "null modem cable", then use
sz/rz (zmodem) to upload/download files from within minicom.
This is the "easiest" method for any Procomm PC veterans from back in
the BBS days. Windows users can use Hyperterm.
A real Unix masochist would use UUCP. Newbies are hereby warned not to
go there :)
This is the "easiest" method for Peter Honeyman, David Novitz and
Brian E. Redman (collectively: HoneyDanBer ;)
If you're really twisted, you can use the "-m" option on GNU tar to
span multiple floppies (kind of like a multi-disk ZIP archive). I
don't believe the opensource "unzip" supports multi-volume archives.
You can use "arj" or "rar" to do this, however.
The replaceable media options are really a Zip, Jazz, or even CDR/CDRW.
- Ian C. Blenke <ian@blenke.com> <icblenke@nks.net>
On Tue, Sep 04, 2001 at 11:19:56AM -0400, Derek Glidden wrote:
> carson_wilcox@yahoo.com wrote:
> >
> > Not really an option, I guess I'll just have to sit down and write driver to do this since this was the only response I got.
>
>
> Maybe because the *easiest* way to do this is to set up a network,
> either with real network cards or via PPP over a serial link. And
> barring that, buying a ZIP drive is probably the next simplest
> solution. If you don't have the interest or desire to do the easy way,
> and don't want to spring for the ZIP drive, you'll *have* to do the hard
> way, like write a special program that has "laplink" like functionality
> and works over the serial or parallel port....
>
>
> > >> I hope someone can help me with this.
> > >>
> > >> I have a desktop and a laptop and I'd like to find a
> > >> simple way to transfer files between them. To be
> > >> honest, I don't have the interest or desire to set up
> > >> a network, all I really want is prehaps a way to send
> > >> files for a serial link, is there a way I can do this?
>
> --
> -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-
> #!/usr/bin/perl -w
> $_='while(read+STDIN,$_,2048){$a=29;$b=73;$c=142;$t=255;@t=map
> {$_%16or$t^=$c^=($m=(11,10,116,100,11,122,20,100)[$_/16%8])&110;
> $t^=(72,@z=(64,72,$a^=12*($_%16-2?0:$m&17)),$b^=$_%64?12:0,@z)
> [$_%8]}(16..271);if((@a=unx"C*",$_)[20]&48){$h=5;$_=unxb24,join
> "",@b=map{xB8,unxb8,chr($_^$a[--$h+84])}@ARGV;s/...$/1$&/;$d=
> unxV,xb25,$_;$e=256|(ord$b[4])<<9|ord$b[3];$d=$d>>8^($f=$t&($d
> >>12^$d>>4^$d^$d/8))<<17,$e=$e>>8^($t&($g=($q=$e>>14&7^$e)^$q*
> 8^$q<<6))<<9,$_=$t[$_]^(($h>>=8)+=$f+(~$g&$t))for@a[128..$#a]}
> print+x"C*",@a}';s/x/pack+/g;eval
>
> usage: qrpff 153 2 8 105 225 < /mnt/dvd/VOB_FILENAME \
> | extract_mpeg2 | mpeg2dec -
>
> http://www.eff.org/ http://www.opendvd.org/
> http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~dst/DeCSS/Gallery/
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