David Drummond wrote in a message to Roy J. Tellason:

 DD> Al salaam a'alaykum Roy

 DD> 21 Aug 03 04:06, Roy J. Tellason wrote to David Drummond:

 DD>> Slackware Linux used to have an option for TCP/IP networking over a
 DD>> parallel port link. I haven't noticed if the option is still there
 DD>> in the later ones or not.. With NICs being so cheap and easy to
 DD>> come by these days, why bother? 

 RJT> Are you referring to PLIP?  If so,  it's still in there as late as 
 RJT> Slackware 8.1 (the latest I have here).  Only I don't think that it 
 RJT> necessarily installs by default any more...

 DD> Yeah, that was it....

I guess that (or SLIP,  for more distance) would be handy if network cards
were still way expensive like they used to be.  Maybe in third-world
countries they still are,  or are hard to get...

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