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In message <1CBD37E402D@hagiga.jct.ac.il> you write:
|On Fri, 19 Apr 1996, Kharitonov Mark wrote:
|
|> - Laplink.Does anybody knows how to copy from hard to hard through
|> parallel ports in Linux (using laplink, like in DOS) ?
|I suppose copying to and from /dev/lp1 should do the trick, but there is
|a much better solution... compile PLIP support at the kernel, and you can
|have a full IP connection there! Telnet and everything! then you can
|mount through NFS, and it will be the fastest transfer!
NFS <=> Fastest??
Would be a nice opportunity to compare - try a simple NFS cp(1) vs.
"tar cf - ... | rsh othermachine 'cd ...; tar xf - ...'" And tell us
the results.
(yes, I know about tar(1)'s 'C' option, but I never remember how to
use it and don't trust it :)
Cheers,
--Amos
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