Subj : A rather general question
To   : Roy Witt
From : Gerald Miller
Date : Tue Jun 29 2004 08:06 pm

Hello Roy,

    Responding to a post in the LAN area:
    On Monday June 28 2004 at 23:18,
    Roy Witt [1:10/22] wrote to Gerald Miller,
    about: A rather general question

 RW> I have 4 machines on a network with W2k on a P-IV @ 2.8ghz as the main
 RW> dude, 2 using W98SE and one with Lindows on it and a P3-500 waiting
 RW> for a HD before it gets on the network.  I've found the easiest way to
 RW> copy from one machine to the next is to use Windows Explorer, make a
 RW> folder identically named, or not, on the recieving machine and
 RW> highlight the files in the folder to be copied or use 'select all' and
 RW> right clicking on the highlighted files and move them to the new
 RW> folder.

 RW> As for the 3.11 machine, I don't know much about that OS as I jumped
 RW> from DOS right into W98..

You're light years ahead of me hardware wise... <vBg>

It took me almost two years (off and on) to get WfW3.11 on the network
[okay, the INet] because the particular NIC that I was trying to use had
some flaws in the driver information file and the company was not willing
to spend resources to support an OS that is so outdated.  I wound up
trashing the NIC in favor of one that has WfW drivers [Netgear].

Eventually, I want to move my Fidonet software over to the Windows 98SE box
because it is my understanding that W98SE is the last version of Windows to
have any support for DOS.

My options were to buy a USB card and try to burn all the programs onto CDs
using my external burner [kind of "iffy" because I have no idea if the
burner software will install within 3.11] or set up some kind of network on
the DOS box.  Since I had 3.11 (never really used it), I figured that would
be the easiest way to proceed (another misconception) because all versions
of Windows #_should_# communicate with one another......

Your idea of identically named folders on all the machines may have some
merits, but it is my plan to name the folders relevant to the machine they
reside on, i.e.: "W98 Hold", "XP Hold", etc.

I'll need some time to get my ducks in a row (set up the folders, set the
folder properties to share, etc., etc.)...

           Thanks ... Gerald

.... If you can't tell the difference, there is no difference.
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