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dlanor78

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Registered: 2004-09-24

Posts: 23

direct connecting with parallel cable

I'm trying to get arch linux to do a direct connect via parallel cable to a laptop with windows 98 so I can transfer some files (and I do have the right kind of cable).  Can anyone tell me what programs/man pages I'm supposed to be looking at for this kind of thing?

I know some of you are gonna say right off the bat to get a crossover ethernet cable and connect that way, but the laptop doesn't have an ethernet port and I don't want to get a pcmcia card for this.

To make matters worse, the cd drive on the laptop won't work any more, so using cdrs is out too.

Thanks in advance for any advice.

tgc

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From: DK

Registered: 2004-03-09

Posts: 96

Re: direct connecting with parallel cable

I used to use FX to do this between dos/win machines, perhaps it'll work with dosbox on linux <> windows. Get FX here: http://www.fortunecity.com/skyscraper/c … dem/fx.zip
BTW, FX doesn't support long filenames, but just zip the files and then unpack on linux

There is also PLIP, but that's only for linux <> linux transfers i think...

Win

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Registered: 2004-03-04

Posts: 155

Re: direct connecting with parallel cable

Hi dlanor78 and tgc.

There's a nice PLIP mini-how-to available:

LINUX PLIP MINI-HOWTO
http://www.linux.se/doc/HOWTO/mini/PLIP.htm

You can connect Linux to Linux, DOS, but not Windows 95 (other variants are not mentioned anywhere).

There's some additional information about PLIP in the following article:

Making a Simple Linux Network Including Windows 9x
http://linuxgazette.net/issue57/sipos.html

The author gets around the Windows 9x limitation by installing Bochs and running Linux emulation on the Windows machine.

I first read about PLIP in Multitool Linux (Chapter 4. "Soup Cans and String Last-Ditch Communications Methods").

You'll need a Laplink cable for this to work, by the way.

Regards,

Win