Re: A bit Lost on Null Modem Xfer's and .ZIP files !

[dalloff@gcfn.org (Dave Althoff Jr)]

Marvin Miller (marvinisnot@home.com) wrote:
: Hi Simon!

: Thanks for the info. It was exactly what I needed. I have some null
: modem cables here and I foolishly assumed they woud work with my //gs.
: Wrong, the connector on the //gs is round and strange!

: Crossing a couple of wires would be easy, but since I have no
: connector - I'm SOL.

This is probably way too late to do you any good, but here goes...

If you are transferring between two GS-style ports, you can use a
straight-through cable...just set one of the ports to "printer" and the
other port to "modem" in the system control panel.  If you have a standard
modem cable 25-pin or 9-pin on one end and Mini DIN-8 on the other) or a 
GS-to-Imagewriter-I or ][e-To-ImageWriter-II cable, you can use a
null-modem on the 'conventional' end of the cable, or you can reset the GS
control panel.

In an 8-bit Apple, you're probably using a Super Serial Card, which also
has a null-modem built in in the form of a little black chiplike thing
with an arrow on it.

If you're looking to compress the files for transport, or to otherwise
retain the directory structure while moving a whole bunch of files, you
might want to put it all in a Shrinkit archive.

--Dave Althoff, ][., who will stop there because chances are all this has
already been said later in the thread...
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