I would like to move an old spreadsheet from an old computer to my new
computer using interlnk.exe and intersvr.exe since the old computer's
floppies and cdrom do not work on it. Can this be done or will I mess
up my new computer?

The old computer  has windows 95 version 4.00.95 but can only be used
in DOS since some files needed to load windows are corrupt.

The new computer has windows 98 on it and the disk is formatted with
the large disk support (systen fat 32?)

I'm not sure you can use interlink and intersvr.exe with 4.00.95. I'm
pretty sure it has to be version 6 or later. Check out easyDOS.com.

http://www.easydos.com/interlink.html

http://www.csulb.edu/~murdock/intersvr.html

The whole site is good, hope this helps.

I might be wrong about the windows versions.

Why not just pull the drive out of the old computer and put it in the new one?

Thanks, Feldersoft-ga for your sggestion. But I have the following concerns:
1. the disk on the new computer has a lot of information I want to keep
2. The disk of the new computer is formatted in the "large disk
support" while the disk I pulled from the old computer is fotmatted in
the older form limiting the number of allocation units to 65000 and
some, with each file, no matter how small, occupying a total
allocation unit. Will setup allow this older format and if not what
can I do to accommodate this older format?

I wasn't suggesting replacing the new disk...just add the old disk as
a second disk in the new computer, copy the data from the old disk to
the new one, and then either take out the old disk (if you want a
backup) or repartition, reformat it and use it.

The new computer should have no problem reading the old disk.

Thanks, Feldersoft-ga for your second sggestion. The old disk is a
master and formatted in the old disk support. Could plugging it into
the slave receptacle of the cable connecting the present disk, which
has the large disk support, and without changing anything in setup,
damage the computer or the new disk and do so without possibility of
undoing the damage?

No.  While one should not ever say never...hooking the other drive
should not damage the computer or the other disk.

However, most machines are setup to use cable select instead of
master/slave.  Set the old drive to slave and the new drive to master,
otherwise the computer might choose the old drive as the primary drive
and try to boot off that which would likely be unsuccessful and
certainly undesirable.

If you want to avoid dealing with this, you could attach the drive to
your secondary ide controller (most machines have two, allowing a
total of 4 connected ide devices).  Most likely the secondary
controller has your cdrom on it now...if you just want the data, you
can disconnect all the devices connected to the secondary contrller,
connect your old drive, and do the copy.