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From: Mick <michaelkintzios@gmail.com>
To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Null Modem Cables Between Windoze XP and Linux
Date: Sat, 24 Jun 2006 21:00:32 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <358eca8f0606241400m542ab519qa804a392c1448bf5@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200606242200.29065@frappe.xs4all.nl>

On 24/06/06, Gerhard Hoogterp <gerhard@frappe.xs4all.nl> wrote:

> 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.

That's right.  Null modems are used for serial connections (i.e. to a
serial console on your Linux box).  Between two machines you would
usually use a null modem cable and set up a new modem connection on
the OS software side so that they communicate using a common protocol,
e.g. tcp/ip.  To send files you could use X Y or Zmodem and a comms
application.

Not entirely sure what a command line approach would be (a getty or
anything that works over tcp/ip I guess?)

Have you looked at this:
http://www.vanemery.com/Linux/Serial/serial-console.html
-- 
Regards,
Mick
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  reply	other threads:[~2006-06-24 21:20 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
2006-06-24 21:00   ` Mick [this message]
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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