On 24/06/06, Gerhard Hoogterp <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 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 -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
