On 08/11/2007, Joe Zambon <joe.zambon@jznet.org.uk> wrote:

>
>  Yeah i'm talking about a physical serial port.
>
>  In response to "why not just add a port"....well.....because it means
> buying a serial card...i'm a student...and therefore poor......ignoring the
> 100 quid I've just put in on a best offer on a cisco 2600XM router :)

Ok, I can understand that as I'm disabled and on a fixed 'low' income
:-(  But, there are other ways of skinning a cat :-)  You could always
ask (politely of course) if anybody happens to have a spare serial
card that they no longer use.  You never know :-)  Or, there's always
your local Freecycling/freeshare/Realcycle group.  That's possibly
more of an outside chance but agian, people do give away some amazing
kit (I've had no end of PC's and am currently working on a nice old
server that was given to me.

> Also this is good for future reference if i want to run management scripts
> for a *nix/*BSD from a windows box.

Very good point.... but if it doesn't work, then assuming you would be
doing this in a paid for position the company would be shelling out
the cash in a similar situation:in other words they'd be buying a
serial card.  :-)

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Kevan Farmer
Linux user #373362
Staffordshire

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