Laplink had a really neat feature for when you didn't have your laplink install disk with you (or had the wrong size laplink install disk).
You could connect the two computers with a RS232 null modem cable, then type something like the following on the target computer:
mode COM1:2400,n,8,1,p
ctty COM1
This redirected the input/output for the terminal to the serial port.
Laplink on the source computer would then 'type' a series of console commands to create a simple transfer program on the target computer. It would use this simple transfer program to transfer the full laplink.
IIRC it used the msdos DEBUG.COM to build the transfer program on the target computer (but this is an old memory, so could easily be a reconstruction).
Composing this message is bringing back lots of weird memories about how we used to compute before the internet.
You could connect the two computers with a RS232 null modem cable, then type something like the following on the target computer:
mode COM1:2400,n,8,1,p
ctty COM1
This redirected the input/output for the terminal to the serial port.
Laplink on the source computer would then 'type' a series of console commands to create a simple transfer program on the target computer. It would use this simple transfer program to transfer the full laplink.
IIRC it used the msdos DEBUG.COM to build the transfer program on the target computer (but this is an old memory, so could easily be a reconstruction).
Composing this message is bringing back lots of weird memories about how we used to compute before the internet.