RE: Networked Computers

From: John H Lister (jhlister@home.com)
Date: Thu Feb 10 2000 - 04:15:05 MET

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    At 7:14 -0700 2/8/2000, Chuck and Angey Werninger wrote:
    >I have one PC and five Macs running ECDL on a LAN at work. Every day or so,
    >I go to each computer, change the name of the dist.points file, save it
    >across the network to the one PC and then manually dial up and submit six
    >batches of points. I see much larger computer networks submitting points
    >and I can't imagine the time it takes without a better method. I don't want
    >to submit duplicate points but also don't want to spend all the time if it's
    >not necessary. Is it possible for all of them to save to the same
    >dist.points file across the network automatically or am I already using the
    >best possible method?

    One little thought: if none of the suggested methods work, you can always *reduce* the frequency of submission. It's not necessary to send your points every day. Join the group of people who send their points on Monday morning! Then you have divided your effort by 7!



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