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Date: Sun, 25 Dec 1994 11:44:06 -0500 (EST)
From: Jeff Mitchell <skeezix@io.org>
To: Robert Floyd <floyd@savant.com>
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Subject: Re: TCPIP over the Parallel Port
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On Sat, 24 Dec 1994, Robert Floyd wrote:

> I work for Savant Software Inc. We write device drivers.  We have
> parallel port drivers for OS/2 and DOS that make the parallel port a
> virtual network adapter.  I would like to get the interface specs to
> to TCPIP Parallel so that we could connect a BSD box to an OS/2 box.

	Doesn't OS/2/Warp do this already? It has a SLIP(-for-newbies) 
interface and software. The machine is pingable (although by default no 
ftpd or telnetd or thelike is provided (or possible?))

	Jeff