From: Sebastian Leske (Sebastian.Leske@bigfoot.de)
Date: Wed Nov 21 2001 - 18:07:03 CET
Hi,
> >P.S. Note that you _can_ make DOS and Linux talk to each other via the
> >parport; for the DOS side a special program is needed though. See the
> >PLIP Mini-HOWTO (available at Linuxdoc, http://www.linuxdoc.org ) for
> >details.
> >
> The program is available in dos already: type:
> # cat < /dev/ttyS0 > filename
> C:\>type < filename > com1
Nice, I didn't know that! Of course, this uses the _serial port_ not the
parallel port. I don't think there is a simple solution like this to go via
parallel port, this requires a special program (see above).
The advantage of using the parallel port (instead of the serial p.) is that the
parport is significantly faster: up to 80 kB / s (I get about 40 kB / s). In
contrast even modern computers won't do more than ~14 kB/s via serial, and older
ones (with a slow serial port UART chip) will be under 8 kB / s.
Plus, if you already have a LapLink(tm) cable, you can use it for a parallel -
parallel connection.
Greetings,
Sebastian
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