I have one called FXlink which I guess is like laplink - its a dos based program and both people run the same program - you can also make 'batches' up to copy whole dirs ect and it runs on dos but doesnt support LFn :/ - its gui based it can run on a laplink parallel or a serial cable. I find it VERY useful - you can use it in a dos window in 95/98 and it doesnt modify and files

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Interesting. You are right, Michael. The anonymous poster before you seems to have great difficulty using FXlink (which is the same as interlnk). Somehow he doesn't seem to know about the reset button that allows something called rebooting, which removes interlnk from memory, or the DOS editor that allows you to easily remove interlink from config.sys. (After all, it can only get there if you put it there in the first place.) (S)he must have had a bad experience with interlnk when (s)he was younger. I can only imagine. Perhaps (s)he can enlighten us as to what that horror could possibly have been.

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William, FG, you dont know what you are talking about. When you run interlink, it automatically modifies your config. Reboot? why in HELL would you want to have to reboot, just to exit a program? When I wrote this, and incorporated it into dos, I purposely made it a crappy program, so that people would go buy nice ones like laplink.Now, lets say I want to exit laplink. I use about 2 keystrokes, and I'm back to dos. Not interlink!!hell no, I have to "edit" a file!!! How stupid was I when I wrote that!! William, you have never used xtlink OR laplink, or you wouldn't be defending the stupid program that I wrote. After all, I knew I wasn't getting any extra money for it, and I knew people like you would pirate the thing, so why make it a decent program? Exactly.

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My apologies to Lisa, since this tangent has nothing to do with her question, but here are the FACTS: 1. Microsoft didn't write interlink. The Sewell Development Corporation did. Just read the copyright notices in the program. 2. It does not ever modify your config.sys file. The person who decides they want to use it modifies his/her own config.sys. 3. It is not necessary in any way to modify config.sys to avoid loading interlnk at boot. There are simple-to-use switches, or multiple configurations. 4. You don't have to reboot if you don't want to, 5. I have never pirated anything. That's against my personal morals. And that's why I avoid surfing the net to download "free" bootleg programs to replace the legally obtained and quite satisfactory interlnk/intersvr files that came with my legally obtained version of MS DOS. 6. Don't start intersvr from within Windows. 7. Have a nice day, Mr. name :)

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My apologies to Lisa, for FgwilliamFG, who does NOT know what he is talking about. 1 I see no evidence of what you speak,but I'll take your word that maybe I bought it from someone else, and just put my "Microsoft" name on it. 2 You MUST modify your config sys to use it. There is NO other way around it. Just to make sure, I went and got my Microsoft MS-DOS 6.22 USER'S GUIDE out and read, on page 151, "Setting up the Client" where, in part, it says, " Open your config.sys file by using a text editor such as MS-DOS Editor. etc etc etc "Add a device command that specifies the location of the interlnk.exe file, etc etc, "device=c;\dos\interlnk.exe/drive:5" (example) So, I say, again, to use this idiotic, difficult, stupid program, you must modify your config sys. What a giant pain in the @@##@#$. WHAT was I thinking when I wrote this program? I MUST have been high. 3 I see no evidence, either in the "official" Microsoft user's guied (which I wrote) or the help files in MS-DOS (which I wrote) that says anything at all about swiches to get around this problem 4 You don't have to reboot? You don't? YOU are the one who said a person should reboot his computer. All I am saying is, this is a real stupid program. WHY I didn't spend the money and buy out laplink, I'll never know. 5. I'll bet if we looked hard enough, we could find SOMETHING in your machine that was pirated. Puleasue don't give me this "holier than thou"--that's my job--Bill Gates. 6 WHAT? this idiotic program that ME, BillGAtes wrote won't run in windows? THat's incredible. Why, I'll have to get my developers on it right away, to SELL a new,improved version. 7. Its raining in Seattle

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LOL Thanks for all the jokes. Truthfully, I can understand someone being emotional about Windows maybe, the higher the version, the more I could understand it. But, being emotional about a simple little program like interlnk/intersvr is something that belongs on a sircom, not real life. So, what do you think of fc.exe? Also, I love rain.

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Thanks people, I needed the same help. All good advice. Keep flaming, it always gets the meat of solution out.

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Finally, since I really miss our past exchanges, I would like to add the details regarding interlnk's switches. Just add the /AUTO switch to avoid loading interlnk if there is not an attached system running intersvr. Or, use a start-up menu to allow the user to choose whether to load or not to load interlnk. Myself, I have used both methods, and also the method of loading interlnk unconditionally. That way I can start intersvr on the other system after boot up and still access the other system's drives as if they were on the system I'm using**. I don't reboot because interlnk uses very little RAM, and since I load it high, it does not use any core memory at all. **-The exceptions are a few DOS Commands, like SUBST, FORMAT, and SYS. But why would I want to do that via interlnk, anyway?

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Bill Gates didn't even write MS-DOS, he bought it for $5000. It used to be called Q-DOS, the Quick and Dirty Operating System. Bill Gates (the real one) is no software author, he's a buisnessman. So this Billgates (the fake one) guy is obviously a horses ass.

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