Re: [flalug] Null modem Q

From: Eben King (eben1@tampabay.rr.com)
Date: Wed Jun 08 2005 - 20:25:03 EDT


On Wed, 8 Jun 2005, Khepri wrote:

> Eben King wrote:
>
> > They were several years apart, so my memory shouldn't necessarily be
> > trusted. Samba over ethernet is definitely faster, hundreds of KB/s
> > over 100 Mb/s ethernet, vs 11 KB/s over 115.2 Kb/s serial.
>
> True...but I haven't had any luck locating any ISA NICs...or video cards
> for that matter...:/

I've got a couple ISA 10 Mb/s NICs here. I can probably easily convince the
owner to give them to you, as we'll never use them. Video cards,

http://froogle.google.com/froogle?q=ISA+%22video+card%22+OR+%22graphic+card%22&btnG=Search+Froogle&scoring=p

shows 185 or so.

> If I was doing it for gaming or something I'd have to remember
> that....I'm thinking more along simple file transfer though.....so I
> don't needd the speed...yet....:)

Depends on how much data you have to transfer. 1 GB/11 KB-per-sec = over a
day.

> >>Chris-in-SP
> >>p.s. Oh!...DO you still have that SIG script handy somewhere?...SO i
>
> <snip>
>
> > any number of m, AFAIK
> > you'll need to global search&replace 'eben' with '<you>'
>
> Awesome! Thanks!

Oh yeah, /bin/ksh = pdksh . ksh might work, but I haven't tried it.

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