LapLink Pro with OS/2 2.x

June 19, 1992

The following is information regarding the use of LapLink Pro with OS/2 version 2. If you have questions regarding any of this information please feel free to contact Technical Support at 206-483-8088 or post a message here. Traveling Software, TECHNICAL SUPPORT

SERIAL:

Versions of LapLink Pro prior to 4.0c are not compatible with OS/2 version 2. LapLink Pro version 4.0c is compatible if you set the serial port to "Polled" in the Port/Modem setup dialog. Please contact us if you need this version. Copying from a floppy drive to the hard drive, whether the drive is HPFS (high performance file structure) or DOS, or copying between two hard drives will work. Going between two floppy drives does not work in the serial mode. LapLink Pro will read and copy to and from the HPFS drive as long as the file names are using the DOS limitation of eight characters with a three character extension. File names longer than the DOS limitation will not be seen by LapLink Pro.

PARALLEL:

All versions of LapLink Pro will work in the parallel mode with all versions of OS/2.

Copying from a floppy drive to the hard drive, whether the drive is HPFS (high performance file structure) or DOS, or copying between two hard drives will work. For parallel transfers, copying between two floppy drives should be fine. The same DOS file name limitations of serial communications apply to parallel.

CLONING:

Because LapLink Pro doesn't copy hidden system files at the root level, and the way OS/2 stores it's system files, LapLink Pro can NOT be used to clone an OS/2 drive to another drive in order to avoid the installation of OS/2 on the target machine.

MODEMS:

LapLink Pro's modem feature will not work with OS/2 at this time because modem ports cannot be set to polled.