Subject: Re: file sharing between platforms?
From: Phil Stracchino (alaric@babcom.com)
Date: Wed Oct 24 2001 - 14:46:02 CDT
On Wed, Oct 24, 2001 at 03:04:01PM -0400, Dom Lachowicz wrote:
> Quoting Phil Stracchino <alaric@babcom.com>:
> > On Wed, Oct 24, 2001 at 11:35:53AM -0700, Bill Lee wrote:
> > > [...] I'm trying to figure out if I
> > > should by a Linux laptop, and I would be much more likely to if I knew I
> > > could swap .abw files between a Linux laptop and my other Win machines.
> >
> > Sure. Use Samba....
>
> Or floppies, ZipDisk, CDR, HTTP, ... You can even mount a windows partition
> under linux and then keep all of your documents on that, thus avoiding
> configuring Samba altogether.
Not if it's on a different machine, which was Bill's scenario. You're
right that sneakernet always works, though, although not all laptops
support internal Zip, and parallel-port Zips are flaky in my experience.
Standard 3.5" floppies, IMHO, should be declared obsolete and consigned to
the bit-bucket of hardware kept around on dusty back shelves solely in
case you someday need to recover some obscure file off of one. There's
several different 100MB+ "superfloppy" formats on the market, it's about
time we just bit the bullet and adopted one of them (say, ZIP250) as a
standard. Hell, LS120 is even backward-compatible (although I'm told it's
rather slower than Zip).
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