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

[Lord Sauron]

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 of some old computer hardware
box this old Symantec null modem cable, plugged it between my X40 and
XP Desktop, and hoped for the best.  I was able to configure XP as the
host with no difficulties, however, I'm not sure what to do about
Linux.  I'm looking though Kuroo for things about Null Modems, but I'd
imagine there's a more command-line friendly way to do this, since I
am very much pro-command line.

I know there's always a way to dump commands into LPT1 and pray it
doesn't call the NSA, but I think there's a more elegant way to do
this.  The reason why I decided to play with this relic of computer
communications technology was because it said that it had the capacity
to run at 2MB/sec, which is faster than my networking... or at least
faster than my networking behaves.  I want to shell out about $50 and
get some gigabit ethernet junk from Frys one of these days, (I can
roll my own Cat5e, so it's not a difficult thing) but I just wanted to
test out this null modem stuff.

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 internet connection remotely.
It's just an idea I'm playing around with, and playing around is good
(99% of the time, anyways).

Thanks for any suggestions of where to start looking.  I'll also be
grepping (sorry, googling) through the Gentoo Wiki, however I don't
expect I'd find anything in there, at least directly related.

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