Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!rutgers!mcnc!rti!sas!walker
From: walker@sas.UUCP (Doug Walker)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: Net: parallel port handler
Message-ID: <1526@sas.UUCP>
Date: 4 Feb 90 05:24:45 GMT
References: <7787@hubcap.clemson.edu> <111400092@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu> <12409@mcdphx.phx.mcd.mot.com> <1502@sas.UUCP> <12416@mcdphx.phx.mcd.mot.com>
Reply-To: walker@sas.UUCP (Doug Walker)
Organization: SAS Institute Inc, Cary NC
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In article <12416@mcdphx.phx.mcd.mot.com> stan@jazz.UUCP (Stan Fisher) writes:
>>Somebody needs to take the source code to DNET and the source to Matt's
>>parallel port read/write routines and bash them together to make a DNET
>>that works over the parallel port.  If you're looking for a project, think
>>seriously about it. 

>
>Now I'm real confused!!
>
>I could have sworn that I saw a thread not too long ago about people actually
>using _a_ Parallel net between Amigas and discussions of how many feet of cable
>could be succesfully ran between them etc. 
>
>Maybe I'm mistaken...  is there some other Serial or Parallel Amiga Networking
>scheme in use somewhere????  I could really put one to use.
>

Now I'M confused - what's the question again?  NET: for both parallel and
serial has been out for quite some time.  Matt's DNET is used as the
underlying communications method for the serial version, and Matt's parallel
port read/write routines are used for the parallel version.  Unfortunately,
the parallel routines are not as functional as DNET and only allow the
network to be mounted one-way.  I was suggesting that someone with some
'spare time' (a legendary commodity) modify the DNET source to use the
parallel port so the network could be two-way.


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