On Monday 22 December 2003 10:24 am, Stefan Athanasiadis wrote: <SNIP>

Also is it possible to communicate to other computers via parallel or serial cable?

Depends on exactly what you need to do, but look at the 'plip' package for scrips to set up an IP connection over parallel port link. For serial connections, there is telnet and minicam, and many (if not all) of the 'standard' utilities (like ssh etc) can be configured to use the serial ports - but someone else will have to point you to the info. Dylan -- Sweet moderation Heart of this nation Desert us not We are between the wars - Billy Bragg