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From: rlw@ttardis.UUCP (Ron Wilson)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.att,unix-pc.general
Subject: Re: Anyone for SLIP
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Date: Tue Jul 10 22:52:35 1990 GMT
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In article <6450@helios.TAMU.EDU>, billg@cs.tamu.edu (William Gunshannon) writes:
>Speaking of SLIP, does anyone know if the printer port on the
>3b1 is bi-directional??  Would make for a faster connection
>between machines!!!
>
>bill gunshannon

yes and no.

you can use - with a driver - use 4 of the 5 control signal ins for
data - FastLynx, DeskLink, Brooklin Bridge and several other MS-DOS
file transfer utilities do this.

In fact, there is an EtherNet interface that connects this way.

- Ron

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