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On Thu, 18 Sep 97 22:57:12 HST, David Ross wrote: >> it is still quite amazing - beam and that's it. It is at least >> as fast as with a normal parallel cable. > >SHould be much slower,if the spec is to be believed. On the other hand, >I've never made a successful IR to IR link, so can't say from personal >experience. > >- David > > I like parallel better, especially when you can nearly compare a parallel 115Kbps transfer to an ISDN line with overhead (or is parallel faster?). I think it would also be nice to have a networking protocol for 2 machines using parallel, so you could also connect in Unix, OS/2 and NT. BTW, since it has beem discussed that IrDA is the same as regular null-modem connections, maybe it can work in Linux. Maybe. Paul