From: Brad Burean (Burean_at_email.msn.com)
Date: Thu Sep 14 2000 - 20:25:14 EDT
Already figured it out thanks!
----- Original Message -----
From: David Ross <ross_at_math.hawaii.edu>
To: Brad Burean <Burean_at_email.msn.com>; Thinkpad Users <THINKPAD_at_cs.utk.edu>
Sent: Friday, September 15, 2000 5:26 PM
Subject: Re: IR Transfer
> > I have 2 560's. Both with working IR ports. How can I get a web
browser
> > transfered from my machine to my son's? For some reason it doesn't have
> IE
> > on it. Any help would be appreciated.
>
> IE is so huge that the best way to get it on a machine is with a CD. Even
> if you get a connection to your other machine running, you can't just
> transfer IE over. Virtually any MS software CD has some version of IE
there
> somewhere;
> once you have it on your son's machine, you can then upgrade to 5.5 by
> downloading it to his machine (don't do this on a slow connection!) Or,
go
> somewhere like www.nonags.com to find the smallest alternative browser you
> can some are quite small!), then use this to download IE.
>
> However, it is useful anyway to get IR working. Assuming you are running
> W9x, you need to install the windows IR drivers
> on each machine. Thios will give you "virtual" com/lpt ports, across
which
> you can run DCC or a program like TranXit or LapLink. If you add a
"virtual
> modem" driver and have the Dial-Up Server installed (included with recent
> releases of the dial-up networking package, free from MS) then you can do
> genuine MS networking across the IR. Works well.
>
> - David R.
>
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