On Mon, Jan 08, 2007 at 10:28:16PM -0600, John Hasler wrote: > Andrew Sackville-West writes: > > okay, I'll buy that, but then what's dialout for? > > You need to be in "dialout" to run programs such as Minicom that connect to > serial ports. The names "dip" and "dialout" are of historic significance > only.
what perfect timing on this information as I set off to try and link up an old laptop to a desktop with a null-modem serial cable ;) thanks A
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