On Tue, 8 Feb 2005 at 19:45:45, Phoebus Dokos wrote:
(ref: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>)
>¤·½ Tue, 8 Feb 2005 22:52:52 -0000,(·) Dilwyn Jones
><[EMAIL PROTECTED]> ³±/wrote:
>
>>>> As a consequence asking for a LapLink cable you end up with a
>>>>parallel cable which of course not only cannot work with the
>>>>serial ports but can potentially damage your QL.
>>> But a moments real thought about this would lead to conclude that
>>>you cannot connect a parallel 'D' cable to a serial one because the
>>>parallel cables are male to male and the serial ones are female to
>>>female.
>>> -- Roy Wood
>> I'm sure it wouldn't stop Phoebus trying ;-)
>>
>
>Me it would dead in the tracks but SOME laplink cables are actually
>extension cables which means that they are pin-to-pin D-25 female to
>female so others it may not ;-)
Extension cables are male <-> female.
... and (with all respect ( (8-)# ) your previous sentence was not
English.
Tony
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