Windows® 98 Unleashed

Chapter 22. Portable Windows: The Briefcase and Direct Cable Connection

IN THIS CHAPTER

• Synchronizing Laptop and Desktop with Briefcase

• From Laptop to Desktop and Back: Direct Cable Connection

• Direct Cable Connection and Infrared Ports

• Direct Cable Connection and the Briefcase

A man must carry knowledge with him, if he would bring home knowledge.

—Samuel Johnson

It used to be that notebook computers occupied very specific and unalterable niches in the computing ecology. Sales professionals didn't leave home without them, executives on business trips routinely packed their portables, and corporate employees without a personal machine lugged a laptop home to do some extra work. In each case, though, the notebook computer—with its cramped keyboard, ...