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From: nsayer@quack.kfu.com (Nick Sayer)
Subject: How to use lp0?
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Date: 23 Jan 1995 18:24:38 UTC
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I tried hooking two FreeBSD machines up together with a 25 pin straight
cable, but neither would talk to the other, and both started giving
'too many errors, downing interface' or some such. What sort of cable
do you have to make to get this to work (and might someone have done
well to put this in the man page :-) )?

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