Re: JetEye Interface Puzzler

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 > From: Mitchell B. Hamm (http://www.lakecumberland.com/~mitch)
 > Date: Wed, 25 Sep 1996 09:32:15 -0400
 > 
 > Here's something I've been wondering about for a while:
 > 
 > I have one of those little Extended Systems JetEye serial modules. It plugs
 > into my serial port and has an IR send/receive module at the other end of
 > the cable. Using the CPACK's LapLink or Filer, I can send and receive files
 > via infrared at 115,200 bps with no problems at all. The problem is, those
 > are the only two serial transfer programs that the device will work with.
 > 
 > In Linux using lxtools, I can never make a connection and I also tried with
 > the DOS interlink application to no avail.
 > 
 > Does anyone know what special thing a program has to do so it can talk to
 > the JetEye? If I can find this out, I can probably talk Andreas Garzotto
 > into fixing lxtools to use it. That'd be cool...
 > 
 > Mitchell B. Hamm <http://www.lakecumberland.com/~mitch>
 > http://w3.one.net/~hamm

Hi.  Sorry for bothering you with possibly a trivial question, but do you
know if LXTOOLS will work with LapLink?  It will be a major pain for me to
buy the connectivity software from HP and then find a DOS or Windows machine
I could use this software on.

thanks.