[Info-vax] VMS terminal support

Johnny Billquist bqt at softjar.se
Thu Aug 2 03:21:54 EDT 2012


On 2012-08-02 03:06, Roger Ivie wrote:
> On 2012-08-01, JF Mezei <jfmezei.spamnot at vaxination.ca> wrote:
>>
>> But that means you can't get a camera to talk to a phone because both
>> are defined as slaves.
>
> Some devices implement USB On The Go, which allows devices to take
> over as the master if there is no master present.
>
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/USB_OTG
>
> Seems like an evil kludge to me, but there ya go...

I actually have a special cable for my phone, to do this. Exactly how 
special, if any, it is I don't know. But it plugs into the normal 
micro-USB port, and gives a normal USB port at the other end, where I 
can connect USB slaves.

	Johnny




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