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Re: Executor - Mac communications
weismand@limestone.kosone.com (Dwight W Weisman) wrote:
>>Well, you could certainly null-modem them together and transfer the
>>files with standard comm software. You'll need a null modem cable
>>with a PC serial connector on one end and a Mac connector on the other
>>of course.
>Cheapest bet is probably a Mac modem cable and a null-modem adapter block,
>looks like a gender changer, but has the pins switched internally and no
>gender change. Or do you need a gender change? Mac serial cables are male
>at the DB25 end.
If it's a modem cable, then you do indeed need the gender change,
which is a good thing since every null modem connector or cable I've
ever seen incorporates one.
BTW, you have the attribution above messed-up; I wrote those lines and
Dwight Weisman wrote the message I was replying to.
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