From: Joshua Hudson (joshudson@hotmail.com)
Date: Wed Nov 21 2001 - 18:58:16 CET
>From: Sebastian Leske <Sebastian.Leske@bigfoot.de>
> > 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
>
The parral port name in DOS is LPT11:
The parral port name in LINUX is /dev/lp0
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