I thank all the people in this list of contributors or projects. If you think I forgot someone, do not hesitate to complain.
He said: "yesterday I had time enough to read your document. It's great and in the next issue of my HOWTO (probably 2. December) I will make a link to it."
He did.
The Linux Documentation Project accepted the PLIP-Install-HOWTO without any hesitation.
Graham corrected my bad English all over the document. Several times. Graham told me that Suse includes a PLIP installation process.
Simon had a problem with his pcmcia floppy drive. So he led me search for a solution that is, in fact, simpler and faster (the DOS one).
Andrew suggested that I talk about parted http://www.gnu.org/software/parted
Florent wrote the section called "Installing Slackware/Caldera".
Tomas also corrected my bad english.
Brad corrected a bug in the Slackware section (inverted IP adresses).
Donald wrote the PLIP kernel documentation
/usr/src/linux/Documentation/networking/PLIP.txt
Tilmann wrote the section called "Installing RedHat 6.x".
Leonard wrote the section called "Installing RedHat 7.x".
"Under linux 2.4, the described method of setting irq doesn't work. it needs insmod parport_pc io=0x378 irq=7 otherwise it will default to no irq." Thanks Richard.
Matt discovered and resolved a plip problem between 2.2.14 and 2.2.16 kernels. See Known problems section.