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[sindi keesan <keesan AT sdf.lonestar.org>]

On Fri, 15 Dec 2006, Samual Acorn wrote:

> why kill perfectly good serial mice? they are getting to be a bit of a
> rare breed...  radioshack has both serial (null modem) and parallel
> (laplink) cables already cooked up... and trust me... the parallel
> approach is a whole lot faster than the serial port could ever
> dream...

We have a drawer full of them.  They were being thrown out.

O'Reilly Running Linux shows the pinout for a nullmodem cable, which you 
can also make from a modem cable by resoldering some pins.  You only need 
9 of the pins but can use a 25-pin cable (which would let you use a 
parallel extension cable plugged into the 25-pin type of serial port).

Radio Shack probably charges $20 for their premade cables.

> > theres a program called 'hjsplit' (look in the 'garbo pc' archives)
> that will be usefull if you wish to take the floppy copy approach...

Also rzsplit for DOS.  Steven used to provide a 'split.exe' which I found 
more confusing to use.

> > > Or you could get the file into the computer by using a serial
> > > null-modem (laplink) cable and the DOS INTERLNK/INTERSVR utility.
> > > Sindi can give you instructions for making a suitable cable out
> > > of two broken mice.