Could someone possibly advise please.

Scenario.
Want to recover user files from a Win98SE system which will not load to the
desktop in normal or safe mode, using cable connection to another PC via
parallel port.
Total Commander (ex Windows Commander) installed on both machines so no
problem with Microsoft's direct cable connection application. Can only boot
to DOS level successfully on faulty machine.
There is a driver you can download (and I have) which will allow you to
connect to the faulty machine at DOS level, LPTDOS. Unfortunately, it does
not recognise long filenames.

Question: Does there exist a parallel port driver which will recognise long
filenames?
It's a real pain having to interpret/rename the files - there are a lot of
them.
T.I.A.

In article <bhved2$cdj$(E-Mail Removed)>, (E-Mail Removed) says...
> Could someone possibly advise please.
>
> Scenario.
> Want to recover user files from a Win98SE system which will not load to the
> desktop in normal or safe mode, using cable connection to another PC via
> parallel port.
> Total Commander (ex Windows Commander) installed on both machines so no
> problem with Microsoft's direct cable connection application. Can only boot
> to DOS level successfully on faulty machine.
> There is a driver you can download (and I have) which will allow you to
> connect to the faulty machine at DOS level, LPTDOS. Unfortunately, it does
> not recognise long filenames.
>
> Question: Does there exist a parallel port driver which will recognise long
> filenames?
> It's a real pain having to interpret/rename the files - there are a lot of
> them.
> T.I.A.
>
>
>
Not sure why you want to use the parallel port?? Just put the hard drive
into the working computer and copy the files you want.

Regards

Wayne D

"Graydogg" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote:

> Could someone possibly advise please.
>
> Scenario.
> Want to recover user files from a Win98SE system which will not load
> to the desktop in normal or safe mode, using cable connection to
> another PC via parallel port.
> Total Commander (ex Windows Commander) installed on both machines so
> no problem with Microsoft's direct cable connection application. Can
> only boot to DOS level successfully on faulty machine.
> There is a driver you can download (and I have) which will allow you
> to connect to the faulty machine at DOS level, LPTDOS. Unfortunately,
> it does not recognise long filenames.

Easy work around: compress all the files you need to a tar/zip ... file.
Then you only need to transfer this file (which may be faster as well).

I allways have a KnoppixCD (www.knopper.net) with me, so recovering windows
systems is much easier. Can do recovering, burning ... even on command-line
if there is not much memory available (<128 MB).

Ciao,
Bernd