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From: len@evax.milw.wisc.edu (Leonard P Levine)
Newsgroups: comp.binaries.ibm.pc
Subject: Floppy-based Local Area Network (Part 1 of 3)
Summary: lan.arc, floppy-based LAN w/ Pascal source
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Date: 30 Jun 88 07:03:21 GMT
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[Beta test copy with full source code.  Constructive feedback requested
by author.  Copyrighted, but free for private and commercial use.  DF]

[Extract from LAN.DOC file:]

             This  system allows a user to work on two PC  computers  (so
        called IBM compatible), one that I will call the Home machine and
        the other the Work machine and keep a reasonable number of  files
        on  both machines current.  The program will permit the  user  to
        carry  a  floppy disk containing copies of  whatever  files  have
        changed  from  Home to Work and back with no  special  attention,
        other than to run a process twice on each machine, once when  the
        user arrives at the machine, and again, just before leaving.   Of
        course  the two computers must share a common floppy drive  type.
        The  amount  of file space supported can be  considerably  larger
        than  the  capacity of a single floppy when the program  is  used
        with the TRIM feature.

             In practice, the user inserts a floppy disk and types  "LAN"
        when  arriving at work and again just before leaving the  office.
        When the user gets home, it is only necessary to insert the  same
        disk  and type "LAN" before beginning and again after  completion
        of  home based work.  Any files that have changed are written  to
        and from the floppy disk as the user moves that disk from machine
        to machine.

        l. p. levine, University of Wisconsin-MIlwaukee.

Name          Length    Stowage    SF   Size now  Date       Time    CRC
============  ========  ========  ====  ========  =========  ======  ====
INSTALL.COM      16222  Crunched   16%     13722  23 Jun 88   2:52p  38C1
INSTALL.PAS       6669  Crunched   65%      2370  23 Jun 88   2:52p  2226
LAN.BAT            160  Crunched   12%       142  23 Jun 88   3:12p  3A97
LAN.DOC          24101  Crunched   62%      9251  29 Jun 88  11:37p  512F
LAN.FIL            256  Crunched   65%        91  23 Jun 88   3:12p  06CF
LANCOMP.COM      21733  Crunched   18%     17893  22 Jun 88  12:05p  DA1B
LANCOMP.PAS      22079  Crunched   65%      7756  22 Jun 88  12:05p  97B4
LANMKDIR.COM     15132  Crunched   15%     12967  18 Jun 88  11:02a  CC37
LANMKDIR.PAS      5760  Crunched   61%      2252  18 Jun 88  11:03a  B105
TOUCH.EXE        12288  Crunched   32%      8408  31 Jan 88  11:15p  F95A
        ====  ========            ====  ========
Total     10    124400             40%     74852