3 Aug
2006
3 Aug
'06
10:28 a.m.
jim stephens wrote:
Chuck Guzis wrote:
I see, in my notes, dating back to late 90's (97ish) support for
PLIP in FreeBSD. But, that's a full-fledged network interface,
not just a "file transfer mechanism". I know it was capable of
working with SPP's so it required a special cable (to push
nybbles across the wire). I am not sure if it supported
any of the "enhanced" printer port capabilities, though.
My most recent SCO release predates this, IIRC (I don't actively
follow SCO's product :> ) but I don't think it has any of
this sort of support.
I think PC-Anywhere (?) supported this on MS platforms many
years ago. As did MS's own protocol.
But, I am not sure if this ever made it out of the MS world... (?)
I know this is a vintage list, but at a minimum,
PS/2-style bidirectional
parallel ports have been around for a very long time, so this
shouldn't be
a problem. Even if you had an old XT, printer and monochrome adapter
cards can usually be modified to operate in bi-directional mode.
After that, it's just the cable and a bit of software on the receiving
side.
I have a "vintage" IBM PS/2 data migration facility box with appropriate
dates, so it is not too off topic. Anyone out there with a recipe
or howto pointer to do this with various os varieties? Say linux
2 linux, or linux to dos?
To fork the thread, I would be interested in whether the SCO parallel
drivers might support the parallel port in such a way as to allow
such coupling, (reads get data from port that is). Also what is required to do this simply or other wise
on Linux
(mentioned above).
Even better, is there a small program to do this to a dos box, that can
be used on dos / old windows boxes.
Laplink had cables for the serial port, I don't recall if it had a
parallel version
that was reliable, as far as dos to dos data transfer.