[ltp] sharing files usin printer port

[Tod Harter]

On Sunday 23 March 2003 12:22 am, J. C. Masias Guillen wrote:
> Somebody knows how to share files using the printer port?

In theory you would use PPP to set up a point-to-point network link between 
the two boxes on /dev/lp0. I haven't done it, at least not in enough years 
not to recall any details, but you would start by learning about the pppd 
program. One side will have to be set up to receive the connection and the 
other to initiate it. The initiating side is virtually like dialing into an 
ISP with a modem, except there's no dialing...

Hardware-wise I think you need a special cable. That was always the case in 
the old days anyway. Maybe if you set up your printer port for 'EPP' you 
don't, but in any case you have to have a cable with the right connectors on 
it. I'd try to get one of the old ones that was made for this purpose. There 
used to be some software for windows that came with such a cable.

I'm sure some of the other guys will be a bit more helpful, its just been way 
too long since I needed to do anything like this.
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Tod Harter
Giant Electronic Brain