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Re: Serial Line
>weird cable
The weirdness consists of weirdly connected handshake lines, to circumvent
a software bug. A Laplink cable should be standard (that is, good). The
bug used to affect DOS COPY *.* COM1: and such, as well as QBASIC PRINT
#open_on_com, "This".
If I understand what you are trying to do, you want to attach a NULL modem
cable on a serial port OTHER than the modem, yes ?
In this case, your best bet is probably pppd, and not the other stuff. I
don't know what you want to attach at the other end of the null modem
cable. It it's a dumb terminal, it should be mgetty or uugetty. Otherwise
think twice about using 'just' a serial protocol, you might be wasting
efforts on a low-end solution for something that could be made much more
powerfull... (and configurable).
P.