Date: Sat, 17 Jun 1995 20:40:44 EST From: "Rob Slade, Social Convener to the Net" Subject: "Hotlinks" by Eppley/Hakala BKHOTLNK.RVW 950505 %A Mark Eppley %A David Hakala 74720.3377@compuserve.com david.hakala@boardwatch.com %C 2600 Tenth St., Berkeley, CA 94710 %D 1993 %G 0-07-881020-5 %I Osborne McGraw-Hill %O U$29.95 510-548-2805 800-227-0900 lkissing@osborne.mhs.compuserve.com %P 254 %T "Hot Links" "Hot Links", Mark Eppley/David Hakala, 1993, 0-07-881020-5, U$29.95 When I saw the title, I figured it would be about LANs. When I saw the cover, and the fact that one of the authors is the founder of Traveling Software, I figured it would be documentation for LapLink. It's neither. The book covers all kinds of ways to link personal computers. This includes transfers over serial and parallel ports, printer sharing, "A-B" switches, LANs (briefly), modems, PCs and Macs, wireless links, and "little tiny computers" (PDAs, palmtops and such). My initial reaction as a data communications specialist, was that the book is sometimes shy on details. The more I read and thought about it, though, the more I realized that the authors have struck a very good balance in providing just enough information. With the range of topics covered, and the small size of the book, this makes an excellent resource for non-specialists who need to get data from one machine to another. Indeed, because of the breadth of discussion, I suspect many technical support people could use this work, while it is easily readable for the beginning user. For anyone who needs to get a file from Machine A to Machine B, a good starting point. copyright Robert M. Slade, 1995 BKHOTLNK.RVW 950505 ============= Vancouver roberts@decus.ca | "If a train station Institute for Robert_Slade@sfu.ca | is where a train Research into rslade@cyberstore.ca | stops, what happens User Rob_Slade@mindlink.bc.ca | at a workstation?" Security Canada V7K 2G6 | Frederick Wheeler