Re: i've got the laptop

[Sven Utcke <utcke@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hello Tofler Family,

(sure you don't have any other name?)

> I cant get my hands on anything old enough for laplink to remote
> install or talk to (being 12 does make things hard) 

Ok, let me spell it out for you more slowly: 

y o u   d o   n o t   n e e d   t o   i n s t a l l   l a p l i n k
f r o m   t h e   P C 3 K .        

just use the version provided to you at the following url:

ftp://hawk.psychol.ucl.ac.uk/pub/sharp-pc3k/laplink.zip

Also make sure to read the 2-paragraph description in 

ftp://hawk.psychol.ucl.ac.uk/pub/sharp-pc3k/laplink.txt

And yes, it is there and can be reached, I checked.  If it can not be
reached from your account, I would suggest to switch from AOL to some
real internet provider (provided you use AOL), or to disable whatever
proxie / filter you are using...

> So I thought as my brother has a laptop I could put TELIX on the
> PCMCIA cards and work it that way.
> 
> The laptop runs Win ME is their a way to format and access the disks
> on his computer.

You would format the card in the PC3K(!).  This, of course, only works
with sram cards, as you need special drivers to access CF-cards, which
aren't installed on your computer by default, but can be found here:

ftp://hawk.psychol.ucl.ac.uk/pub/sharp-pc3k/sundrv.zip
ftp://kogs.informatik.uni-hamburg.de/pub/utcke/pc3k/dipssdp1.sys

My advice would be to download the laplink.zip mentioned above,
install it on your brothers laptop (or any other laptop running
preferably one of DOS or Windows 95/98/ME --- I haven't tried it, but
there might be difficulties with NT/2000/XP).  If this doesn't do what
you think it does, tell us _exactly_ what you did, and we will try to
spot the error (an obvious one would be to use a straight-through
serial cable rather than a null-modem one.  Another obvious one would
be mismatching or to high connection speeds --- stick with 9600).  If
you are any good with a soldering iron (and enjoy this kind of work)
you could download from the web an instruction how to connect LEDs to
your serial cable in such a way that you will be able to tell whether
there's any activity (maybe look under RS-232 BreakOut Box ---
although you really only need the LEDs).  However, unless some
component is broken you should be able to get this running without
such a box...

Hope this helps

Sven
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