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- On Tue, 4 Jun 1996, Peter Ross wrote:
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- > Check out this link to find out about PLIP, a networking
- > protocal that uses the Parallel port. Would be useful
- > to Falcon users for High speed links with MiNT, Linux,
- > or some other Unix type OS. It would help in the transfer
- > of data between PC, Amigas and Falcons.
- >
- Nope, Linux (at least on PC) goes a different way expanding the SLIP
- protocol to parallel lines. Thus the MiNTnet PLIP and the Linux PLIP are
- not kompatibel. But I guess a new PLIP.XIF for MiNTnet that implements
- Linux PLIP wouldn't be too difficult. Yet nobody has done it AFAIK.
-
- Cheers Peter
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- Peter Rottengatter perot@pallas.amp.uni-hannover.de
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