How to make a paralel cable

[jorge...@my-dejanews.com]

Í want to conect two computers in Windows 98 using the paralel port but there
aren't any cable avaliable for sale in my city.
If somebody knows how to make a cable for this, please email me. The conector
is a DB25.

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[th...@gte.net]

jorge...@my-dejanews.com wrote:
>
> Í want to conect two computers in Windows 98 using the paralel port but there
> aren't any cable avaliable for sale in my city.
> If somebody knows how to make a cable for this, please email me. The conector
> is a DB25.
>

A 25-wire serial cable with 2 DB-25 male headers will work just fine.
If such a cable is supplied with 1 male and 1 female header, then a
gender changer can be used. Much easier than making one.

Tom

[Stevebarke]

In article <6suhg0$4dd$1...@nnrp1.dejanews.com>, jorge...@my-dejanews.com
writes:

>
>Í want to conect two computers in Windows 98 using the paralel port but there
>aren't any cable avaliable for sale in my city.
>If somebody knows how to make a cable for this, please email me. The conector
>is a DB25.
>
>

If you have access to a machine with dos 6.x on it, then go at the dos prompt
and type

HELP INTERLNK

after that, you can cruise the various screens there in help and it shows the
"pin out" to make an interlnk (laplink) cable. If you have an ohm meter and
can solder, then you can make one out of a standard parallel cable.

Steve Barker

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