On 4/20/05, Andrew Medico <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Apr 20, 2005, at 20:32, Federico Lucifredi wrote: > > > Hello Fellow Mongers, > > please excuse my totally Perl-unrelated question, but I am sure more > > than a few of you will appreciate the idea: I want to get my working > > VT-100 connected to a Linux server to read e-mail in a *very* old > > style way ;-) > > > > I know everything I need about setting tty lines in Linux. What I do > > not know (and the expertise of the old timers here is the key) is what > > kind of cable to use to connect the darn thing... what is it called? > > Where do I find it? I can make one myself, but in that case I qould > > need a wiring diagram. > > What you're looking for is a "null modem" serial cable. It's analogous > to an Ethernet crossover cable.
I'll bet that that is a piece of trivia that you never expected to need to use again! :-) Cheers, Ben _______________________________________________ Boston-pm mailing list [email protected] http://mail.pm.org/mailman/listinfo/boston-pm
