Re: tlug: serial connection with laptop

["Eric Standlee" <e-w.standlee@example.com>]

Okay, I will try to find that book in English.  Maybe I will order it from
Amazon.com.

I do have a question though.  If you use ppp for the nullmodem, then how to
you pon to the ISP?  Is that what you meant by the use of the gateways?  I
guess that is also in the Networking book.

On a slight side-note, is there a script out there to 'pon', 'smail <get
mail option>', and 'poff'?  Just want to save some Yen by getting off the
phone asap...

Thanks Karl.  I am beginning to be very amazed at the technical prowess of
this group.  Too bad there isn't a local chapter here in Nara-ken...

Eric S. Standlee
Kashihara-shi <Kintetsu Yamato Yagi>
Nara, Japan
e-w.standlee@example.com 

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> From: Karl-Max Wagner <karlmax@example.com>
> To: tlug@example.com
> Subject: Re: tlug: serial connection with laptop
> Date: Sunday, June 14, 1998 6:12 AM
> 
> > I have tried to figure this one out on my own too, but how do you (or
can
> > you) connect a laptop via serial port.  I know that just because it is
a
> > laptop doesn't make much of a difference.
> Correct.
> > I suppose that in theory I could connect via nullmodem (what is that?)
and
> > use slip/mgetty????
> Better ( simpler ) is PPP. A nullmodem is a cable wired in a special
> way. It is the same stuff you use for Laplink, Fastlynx or the
> like. Here is a wiring list taken from the Fastlynx manual:
> 

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