Laplink like prog for OS/2

[christij@unix.asb.com (Joseph Christie)]

A while ago some one was looking for laplink for OS/2. I thought I would
relate my adventure with this problem.

I called Indelible Blue and ordered Linkright. I tried to get it running in
serial mode and it wouldn't recognize my serial port half of the time and
when I ran it in DOS mode I kept getting timeout errors and bad checksum
errors.

I returned Linkright and ordered LinkWiz. It is $132.00 with parallel and
serial cables. I opened the box, threw the manual on the bed and installed
it.

It works in serial mode, it orks in parallel mode and when I disconnect the
multi-port adapter and use the floppy/parallel cable it works with that
too. It even works with my other desktop which has a special card/driver
combination for a postscript printer on LPT2. It automagically finds the
cable on any port and self configures.

According to the docs it also works with Windows, DOS and Unix. I don't
know about that yet but strictly from OS/2 I am a happy camper. I also
happily recommend Indelible Blue. They were courteous and prompt issuing an
RMA number, waived the restocking fee and were very nice about the whole
thing which was done completely through email and their web page.

ciao


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