Re: iMac to GS

["william strutts" <wrstrutts1@nospam.home.com>]

"Norman Deveau" <norman@klis.com> wrote in message
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> Can someone help me with modem to modem transfer?
> (My only option apparently, I only have a rev B iMac and a
> GS with ROM 00 and 512K ram)
>
> I have a ProDos disk and a Modem Manager disk, a
> Global Village modem with the right cable.
>
> I'm using Appleworks 5 on the Mac,
> --------------------------------
> Serial Tool
> the same baud rate on both (I've tried 19,2000 and 1200)
> Parity-none
> Data bits 8
> Stop bits 1
> Handshake various
>
> I've tried <ATA and ATX3D>.
>            <ATA and ATA>
>            <ATX3D and ATX3D>
> And any other combo I could think of .
> The modems have made a lot of racket but the end result is
> always a *no carrier* message.
>
> I'm very interested in making this GS work, I've run a few programs
> under emulation, and while that works quite well I'd much rather
> use the real thing.
>
> Speaking of emulation, I've only been able to download and run dsk.
> images. I've tried to get .shk files with Netscape,iCab,IE,and FTP
> but always get a corrupt file message when I try to unshrink them.

Get Stuffit for the Mac or PC and test the archive before you transfer
it to the IIgs. I use this to test an archive on the PC before I transfer it
to my Mac and IIgs.  I believe there are other PC apps that you can
get to unshrink files on the PC.  There is one called NuLib which
has an archive test feature. It comes in handy so that you can narrow
down the weak link.

> Any info which assumes I have knowledge of ProDos commands or
> experience with any system other than Macintosh may be useless
> to me as this is my first experience with any sort of Dos or
> command line OS.
>
> Any help will be greatly appreciated
>
> Norm
> Yar.NS,Can

You can't hook two modem up and expect them to talk. They
need to be connecting through the telephone. The carrier is
used by the modem to turn the echo switch off on the telephone
network so that two way communication is possible. (I may
be wrong on this but I recall reading this) The modem then
waits for the other phone to ring. The modem receiving then
looks for a carrier signal to see if it is a data connection which
it has to be there for the above reason.  If the carrier is not
present, most modems are set up to then assume nothing is
on the other line. The dialing modem will wait to send a carrier
until it detects the phone line being picked up. Hence I would
think that it wouldn't work.

However, you might try turning off carrier detect on the answering
modem and see if that works.
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