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From: Mick <michaelkintzios@×××××.com>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Null Modem Cables Between Windoze XP and Linux
Date: Sat, 24 Jun 2006 21:20:40
Message-Id: 358eca8f0606241400m542ab519qa804a392c1448bf5@mail.gmail.com
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-user] Null Modem Cables Between Windoze XP and Linux by Gerhard Hoogterp
1 On 24/06/06, Gerhard Hoogterp <gerhard@×××××××××××××.nl> wrote:
2
3 > While there were cables using the parallel port for communication, they always
4 > needed special software to deal with this. A nul-modem though used to be
5 > serial and as such worked the normal tty stuff.
6
7 That's right. Null modems are used for serial connections (i.e. to a
8 serial console on your Linux box). Between two machines you would
9 usually use a null modem cable and set up a new modem connection on
10 the OS software side so that they communicate using a common protocol,
11 e.g. tcp/ip. To send files you could use X Y or Zmodem and a comms
12 application.
13
14 Not entirely sure what a command line approach would be (a getty or
15 anything that works over tcp/ip I guess?)
16
17 Have you looked at this:
18 http://www.vanemery.com/Linux/Serial/serial-console.html
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20 Regards,
21 Mick
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