Hi David.

22-Aug-03 16:41:12, David Drummond wrote to Charles Angelich


 DD> Al salaam a'alaykum Charles

 DD> 21 Aug 03 21:58, Charles Angelich wrote to David Drummond:

 DD>>> Apparrently PLIP is still offered with Slackware 8.1

 CA>> Those who build intranets within their homes are happy campers
 CA>> when it works. At that time it is "the only way to go".

 DD> Tough if one has more than two machines to network or requires
 DD> greater than 5 metre distances

it should work over longer distances but with reduced throughput.
and you can only have 3 parallel ports per machine. :)

(but yeah, it's a pain)

 -=> Bye <=-

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