On Fri, 27 Aug 1999, Maurice Hendrix wrote: > > I'm wondering whether the parallelport is "hot-swappable" a la USB. I > need to know this because I want to setup a PLIP network between my > server and my laptop. It'd be great if there would be no need to > shutdown both computers before (dis)connecting the laptop and the > parallelcable. > Huh? AFAIK, you have always been able to "hot swap" items on the parallel port - so long as you're not physcially disconnecting the actual parallel port from the motherboard, you are all set, and you can do whatever you want. I switch my printers around all the time like this. ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Michael B. Trausch [EMAIL PROTECTED] You can reach my website whenever I am online: http://fd0man.myip.org ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Resistance is futon. Borgie go nap nap now.
