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From: Gerhard Hoogterp <gerhard@frappe.xs4all.nl>
To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Null Modem Cables Between Windoze XP and Linux
Date: Sat, 24 Jun 2006 22:00:28 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <200606242200.29065@frappe.xs4all.nl> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <e5a3e9ac0606241249q76271ca7g6648e62f14e4df9a@mail.gmail.com>

On Saturday 24 June 2006 21:49, Lord Sauron wrote:
> I dug out of this ancient computer book (Upgrading and Repairing PCs
> 12th Ed.) this relic technology of the Null Modem Cable.  It's a
> twisted Parallel Cable that allows 2 PCs to almost literally talk to
> each other. 

While there were cables using the parallel port for communication, they always 
needed special software to deal with this. A nul-modem though used to be 
serial and as such worked the normal tty stuff.

For parallel I remember that lantastic-z had a parallel cable and there was 
some other program under dos which used to use a parallel cable. Forgot the 
name, but maybe with a little google and dosbox you have a chance there..

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  reply	other threads:[~2006-06-24 20:35 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2006-06-24 19:49 [gentoo-user] Null Modem Cables Between Windoze XP and Linux Lord Sauron
2006-06-24 20:00 ` Gerhard Hoogterp [this message]
2006-06-24 21:00   ` Mick
2006-06-24 20:14 ` Jerry McBride
2006-06-25  8:25 ` Josh Helmer
2006-06-25 19:46   ` Lord Sauron
2006-06-25 20:02     ` John J. Foster
2006-06-25 20:20       ` Gerhard Hoogterp
2006-06-25 21:24         ` John J. Foster
2006-06-27 23:44     ` Daniel Iliev

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