On Tue, 2005-02-15 at 19:49 +1300, Ken.McAllister wrote: > Christopher Sawtell wrote: > > > > Put floppy in drive > > find ~ | cpio --create > /dev/fd0 > > > > Good until ... the "diploma course" you will discover > > at:- > > > > man ... > > > > > > have fun. > > > > > > > Dear All > > I too have boggled my mind with 3 500 000 Google pages and I've > researched every Rute Manual index reference that seems remotely > relevant. My understanding of "relevant" is obviously faulty. > > I'd love help, in similar brief words and Man-pages as Chris's help above. > > > I've got two computers, Mandrake 10.0 and Mandrake 10.1, a couple of > metres apart, both with one parallel port, and I have a Lap-link > parallel cable. Can I connect the computers and, at the command prompt > or otherwise, send files from one to the other?
yes, research plip (ip over parallel port). However I strongly suggest two network cards, the're probably built in, or will cos in the order of $10-20 each. Get PCI ones. > > I have one printer, on one computer's parallel port. Can I, by means of > one of those old parallel switches or otherwise, use the printer from > either computer? > > Much obliged in advance (gratitude, they say, is a lively sense of > future favours) > > Ken McAllister -- Nick Rout <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
