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In article <1993Jan23.002513.3299@midway.uchicago.edu> sip1@midway.uchicago.edu writes:
>>I require an easy to use serial transfer application so that I can back
>>up my 200 Meg drive to my friend's 800 Meg drive (we're both running
>>OS/2 2.0) before I reformat and install OS/2 2.1.  (Our drives are 
>>incompatible in the same system, otherwise it would be a piece of cake.)
>>FAT and HPFS support have to be mandatory in the product I'm looking for.
>>(It should also run under 2.1 after to get my data back afterwards.)
>>See, overall, I have too much data to backup to floppy but not enough
>>to warrant some major jerry-rigging to put both drives in the same
>>system.
>Now that's an interesting one -- somethink like LapLink for OS/2, I
>suppose.  I don't know of such a product (yet).  You could use a
>conventional communications program (like TE/2, C-Kermit, etc), but I
>realize that isn't exactly what you are looking for.
>If I have a free bit of time maybe I'll write one.  Something like
>that could be done in Visual REXX, even.

On second thought, I believe OS2You will perform this task quite well.
(You may need M2Zmodem as well.)  Both are available via anonymous ftp
from ftp-os2.nmsu.edu.

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