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.. -- Ithaka photography, http://ithaka.mine.nu/ -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
