Re: Help: Convert AW files to IBM

[jamess@cts.com (Jim Stafford)]

If you don't happen to have 2 modems just go to Radio Shack or whatever 
computer store you like and get a null modem. You'll probably need a 
gender changer also. The gender changer depends on the port that your 
modem is usaly connected to. If your modem uses the 9 pin port you'll 
need a 9 pin female to a 25 pin female. If your modem uses the 25 pin 
port you'll need a 25 pin female to 25 pin female gender changer. The 
whole setup should cost about $10.00 unless you need a cable. I just used 
a 25 pin cable that I had laying around I don't remeber if it was a 
printer cable or a modem cable.

After you set up the cables to the modem ports of each computer just 
start your term programs on each computer. Make sure that the baud and 
the stop bits and everything else is set the same. Once you have the term 
programs running you should be all ready to go, just type anything on the 
keyboard of one of the computers and if what you typed shows up on the 
other computers monitor you're ready to tranfer.

I did this on my GS and a 486 pc to make boot and root disks for Linux. 
The pc was given to me and only had a 5 1/4 and 3.5 disk drives. I used a 
boot disk to start the pc and MS Works 2.0 on the pc and AppleWorks GS on 
my GS. After I got a hard drive on the pc and got Linux installed I used 
Seyon on the pc and AnsiTerm on the GS (goes a lot faster than the former).

This was so easy to do it worked the very first time! Hope this helps.

jamess