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-
- ===========
- SERPAR 1.00
- ===========
-
- by
-
- Matti Rintala
-
-
- Introduction
- ============
-
- I have two Amigas, an old A2000 and A4000/040. I have only one
- printer, which is connected to the A4000. Sometimes it would be nice
- to print something from the A2000 also. I already have an RS232 wire
- between the machines, but I really didn't want to put up another cable
- for the printer. This is where I made SerPar.
-
- SerPar is a program which simply opens a small window and then copies
- everything from the serial port to the parallel port. When its window
- is closed, it quits. This way I can set A2000 to print everything to
- the serial port and redirect the output to the printer on my A4000.
-
-
- Requirements
- ============
-
- SerPar requires at least AmigaOS 2.0 to run (sorry 1.3 owners, but I
- _really_ consider 1.3 to be obsolete).
-
-
- Usage
- =====
-
- From CLI:
-
- SerPar [serial_device [parallel.device]]
-
-
- Without any arguments SerPar copies everything from serial.device to
- paralle.device. You can give another serial.device look-alike with a
- command like arguments (like artser.device). Similarly you can give
- another device to replace parallel.device (like fastpar.device). NOTE:
- If you want to give another device for parallel, you MUST also supply
- the serial device name!
-
- It is _not_ necessary to use 'run SerPar...', as SerPar detaches
- itself automatically.
-
-
- From WorkBench:
-
- Just click on the icon. You can add the necessary command line
- arguments to the icon tooltypes (just add the device names in correct
- order).
-
-
- Copyright
- =========
-
- SerPar is public domain. Do whatever you want with it. I don't care,
- as it took me very little time to do it.
-
- All comments, bug report, compliments etc can and should be sent to
- following addresses:
-
- email: bitti@cs.tut.fi
-
- snail-mail:
-
- Matti Rintala
- Pyykkiojankatu 2 C 24
- 33710 TAMPERE
- FINLAND
-