05-11-2006
How to connect laptop to Unix system via Parallel port
Hi,
I have been using a computer to keep track of inventory for my business. I am pretty sure it runs on Unix. In the back of the computer there is some sort of PCI card that has about 8 RJ-11 ports on it. I use that card to connect the Unix system to my 3 VT-220 terminals. I use a simple 6 wire phone cord to connect the terminal to the system, however, when I connect the cord to the terminal, I use an adapter to plug it into that. The only ports on the back of the terminals are 3 parallel ports (atleast that's what they look like), so I use an RJ-11 to DB25 adapter to plug it into one of the three. It works fine, but what I was wondering was if I could simply just take the adapter and plug it into my laptop which runs Windows XP and use an emulation program of some sort. I have tried this before but couldn't really get it to work right. Any help is appreciated.
Thanks.
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dialups
dialups(4) File Formats dialups(4)
NAME
dialups - list of terminal devices requiring a dial-up password
SYNOPSIS
/etc/dialups
DESCRIPTION
dialups is an ASCII file which contains a list of terminal devices that require a dial-up password. A dial-up password is an additional
password required of users who access the computer through a modem or dial-up port. The correct password must be entered before the user
is granted access to the computer. The set of ports that require a dial-up password are listed in the dialups file.
Each entry in the dialups file is a single line of the form:
terminal-device
where
terminal-device The full path name of the terminal device that will require a dial-up password for users accessing the computer
through a modem or dial-up port.
The dialups file should be owned by the root user and the root group. The file should have read and write permissions for the owner (root)
only.
EXAMPLES
Example 1: A sample dialups file.
Here is a sample dialups file:
/dev/term/a
/dev/term/b
/dev/term/c
FILES
/etc/d_passwd dial-up password file
/etc/dialups list of dial-up ports requiring dial-up passwords
SEE ALSO
d_passwd(4)
SunOS 5.10 4 May 1994 dialups(4)