Re: [gentoo-user] Null Modem Cables Between Windoze XP and Linux

2006-06-27 Thread Daniel Iliev
Minicom is also a program that works OK. Another approach would be to run ppp over the serial line and make the windows log into the Linux dial-in server. (actually its the way ISPs worked with modem users years ago) But if that's not a matter of pure testing I'd say its a waste of time for

Re: [gentoo-user] Null Modem Cables Between Windoze XP and Linux

2006-06-25 Thread Josh Helmer
On Saturday 24 June 2006 12:49 pm, Lord Sauron wrote: I honestly am harbouring delusions of using the faster null modem stuff to directly sync my laptop with a future Linux CVS/Web server, so that I can have a update of the whole smash in my laptop once a day, rather than waiting for a slow

Re: [gentoo-user] Null Modem Cables Between Windoze XP and Linux

2006-06-25 Thread Lord Sauron
On 6/25/06, Josh Helmer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Saturday 24 June 2006 12:49 pm, Lord Sauron wrote: I honestly am harbouring delusions of using the faster null modem stuff to directly sync my laptop with a future Linux CVS/Web server, so that I can have a update of the whole smash in my

Re: [gentoo-user] Null Modem Cables Between Windoze XP and Linux

2006-06-25 Thread John J. Foster
On Sun, Jun 25, 2006 at 12:46:16PM -0700, Lord Sauron wrote: I have it on extremely good authority that it goes 2MB/sec. it's always a good thing to question authority. I'll start looking for Kermit now. Thanks. emerge -av kermit later, festus -- It is not unusual for those at the wrong

Re: [gentoo-user] Null Modem Cables Between Windoze XP and Linux

2006-06-25 Thread Gerhard Hoogterp
On Sunday 25 June 2006 22:02, John J. Foster wrote: On Sun, Jun 25, 2006 at 12:46:16PM -0700, Lord Sauron wrote: I have it on extremely good authority that it goes 2MB/sec. it's always a good thing to question authority. Well, the used protocol has to do with it too.. and what I remember

Re: [gentoo-user] Null Modem Cables Between Windoze XP and Linux

2006-06-25 Thread John J. Foster
On Sun, Jun 25, 2006 at 10:20:39PM +0200, Gerhard Hoogterp wrote: On Sunday 25 June 2006 22:02, John J. Foster wrote: On Sun, Jun 25, 2006 at 12:46:16PM -0700, Lord Sauron wrote: I have it on extremely good authority that it goes 2MB/sec. it's always a good thing to question authority.

Re: [gentoo-user] Null Modem Cables Between Windoze XP and Linux

2006-06-24 Thread Gerhard Hoogterp
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

Re: [gentoo-user] Null Modem Cables Between Windoze XP and Linux

2006-06-24 Thread Jerry McBride
On Saturday 24 June 2006 15:49, 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. So, I found in the depths

Re: [gentoo-user] Null Modem Cables Between Windoze XP and Linux

2006-06-24 Thread Mick
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