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From: brian@awfulhak.demon.co.uk (Brian Somers)
Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions
Subject: Re: How to use lp0?
Date: 6 Feb 1995 03:29:47 -0000
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Nick Sayer (nsayer@quack.kfu.com) wrote:
: I tried hooking two FreeBSD machines up together with a 25 pin straight
: cable, but neither would talk to the other, and both started giving
: 'too many errors, downing interface' or some such. What sort of cable
: do you have to make to get this to work (and might someone have done
: well to put this in the man page :-) )?

: -- 
: Nick Sayer <nsayer@quack.kfu.com>    | Pinochio was an oddity.
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: +1 408 249 9630, log in as 'guest'   | With most guys, it's not their nose
: URL: http://www.kfu.com/~nsayer/     | that gets longer when they lie.

I beleive you have to use a 'laplink' cable - it's got some of the lines
switched but I don't know which.

--
Brian <brian@awfulhak.demon.co.uk>

Don't _EVER_ lose your sense of humour....