Thank you for trying the demo version of LinkRight. Installation The install should be easy. Insert the diskette into drive a:, open an OS/2 command window, change directory to A:, type install, and follow directions. If you have an a: drive that is 5 and a quarter, you can copy the files on the installation diskette to a 5 and a quarter diskette and then install. Or you can install manually. No files are compressed on the installation diskette. Using LinkRight This demo version of LinkRight only has low speed serial connections enabled. The shrink wrapped version has parallel port connections and high speed serial connections. Double click on the LinkRight object from the WPS (you won't use the OS/2 command line, will you??) on both machines. Make sure the cables are hooked up. Select one machine as Local and the other machine as Remote. Under the Connect menu, select which port you want to use for both machines. You should now have a connection established. The Local machine should have the half window that displays files from the remote machine filled with the list of files. After you have the connection established, mark files or directories from the Local machine by single clicking with the primary mouse button (left). Then hit the COPY pushbutton. Double click on a directory or drive to change to that directory or drive. The .. indicates the parent directory. Double click on it to move up one directory level. You should be able to queue more files to send while files are being sent. The Refresh push button is to refresh the display for both the Local and Remote file list. Late additions During the final testing of LinkRight, one computer, out of many tested, received garbled files (500 bytes out of 50K were garbled). The problem was isolated to the compression algorithm. It was found that if you turned off compression, all files were received well. Therefore, we added an option to turn off compression. This problem is not a problem with LinkRight since it worked well on all other computers tested, and since the particular machine could not execute PKZIP properly. It was probably flaky hardware, but we thought we should allow a no compress option. Technical Support If you have problems, please let us know. You can reach me at: Jeff Tremble Compuserve: 71033,3517, OS2AVEN/Other Vendors, or OS2USER/App quest Internet: 71033.3517@compuserve.com Fido Netmail: Jeff Tremble, 1:109/347 (OS/2 Shareware) Direct BBS: Jeff Tremble, "Local Area" on OS/2 Shareware, (703) 385 4325 I also watch comp.os.os2.apps. Voice answering machine (301)762-1151 Fax (301)762-1185 If you have a problem, we will attempt to fix it for you. Marketing Hype LinkRight version 1.0 is the initial version of LinkRight. Because of that, it is not perfect (what software product is??). By the end of 1993, Rightware will have version 1.1 available. All registered users of version 1.0 will receive, free of charge, version 1.1. At that time, you will also receive a coupon that you can use for a $10 upgrade to version 2.0. Obviously, we will fix any bugs found in version 1.0 for version 1.1. In addition, there are many features that we have considered, but we would like to know which features our customers would prefer. So please let us know which features you would like to see in version 1.1 and version 2.0 of LinkRight. If you like this software, please tell the world. Good Luck and Happy Computing. Jeff Tremble President, Rightware