On Thu, Jan 13, 2000 at 09:59:15PM +1100, Paul Clyne wrote:
> Listers,
> Once upon a DOS time there was a program called Lap Link 3.
That was the parallel port transfer stuff that used an 8 wire cable
to cross connect the parallel ports of two systems.
> I'm looking for a program (or set of commands) that would allow me to
> transfer a file from my desktop to my notebook. What's the LL3 linux equiv ?
PLIP
> Unfortunately the network between the two is temporilly down and floppys
> would take forever.. hence my request...
> I'm sure that armed with two working serial ports and my trusty LL3 cable
> I can do a simple single file transfer, but how ?.
If you have a laplink cable (I have) you can use PLIP. That's
IP over the parallel port. Then you can use ftp if you like. It's just
a point to point network connection then.
> On the 'sender' could I just cat the file to /dev/tty1 ?
> could then the 'receiver' just /dev/tty1 > filename
> It couldn't be that easy, why wouldn't this work ?..
Because it doesn't make sense? It's a network interface.
I use PLIP as a private backbone between my two co-located web
servers. Gives me about 1 MBit connectivity which is just fine for the
backup and administrative stuff I use it for.
> Much thanks in advance
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