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Date:      Wed, 26 Jul 95 12:01:33 EDT
From:      jleppek@suw2k.ess.harris.com (James Leppek)
To:        jmb@kryten.atinc.com
Cc:        freebsd-hardware@freefall.cdrom.com
Subject:   Re: if_zp driver
Message-ID:  <9507261601.AA10847@borg.ess.harris.com>

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Been there, done that :-)
not enough thruput, but it worked well and easy to set up :-)

Jim Leppek

> From jmb@kryten.Atinc.COM Wed Jul 26 11:35:45 1995
> Date: Wed, 26 Jul 1995 11:27:13 -0400 (EDT)
> From: "Jonathan M. Bresler" <jmb@kryten.atinc.com>
> Subject: Re: if_zp driver
> To: James Leppek <jleppek@suw2k.ess.harris.com>
> Cc: freebsd-hardware@freefall.cdrom.com
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> 
> On Wed, 26 Jul 1995, James Leppek wrote:
> 
> > I really need to hook a couple of notebooks together to move a 
> > large amount of data for a demo and I do not have a small hub. 
> > Hmmmm maybe I could just flip the transmit and receive TP lines,
> > kind of like a TP NULL modem :-)
> 
> 	if you can live with 70kB/s, get yourself a laplink cable and use 
> lp0 to transfer the data from box to box.  (a wiring diagram is in 
> /sys/i386/isa/lpt.c).  i bought a cable at microcenter for ~$10.
> 
> 
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