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

[marvinisnot@home.com (Marvin Miller)]

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.

Where would I get one, or how could I make one?

Thanks;
Marvin


On Sat, 25 Nov 2000 02:45:35 GMT, "Simon Biber"
<simon@basilisk2.cjb.net> wrote:

>A plain serial cable, such as you would use to connect a modem to your PC,
>connects Receive to Receive and Transmit to Transmit, so connecting it
>between two computers won't work, as they will be both listening on the same
>line, and both sending on the same line. What you need is called a
>null-modem, which can be a little box you connect in line with your serial
>cable, or it can be a new cable which replaces the old one. This one swaps
>the lines over, so that Receive goes to Transmit and Transmit goes to
>Receive. This way the data can be written by one serial port and read by the
>other one.
>
>There are one or two ZIP programs for the Apple, but you probably would find
>it easier to transport them uncompressed. However if the programs use an
>Apple II-based format like ShrinkIt then you should extract them on the
>Apple. (Providing you have the ShrinkIt program.)
>
>Simon.
>
>
>"Marvin Miller" <marvinisnot@home.com> wrote in message
>news:3a1f2121.1890414181@news...
>> Hi;
>>
>>
>> I got my SCSI card today and connected it up to my HD. I made a bunch
>> of ProDos partitions and one big HFS one.
>>
>> I have a bunch of data on my PC that needs to go to the Apple. I
>> really quickly looked at the FAQ, saw the words null modem and figured
>> I had it beat as I have done this stuff before (by using HyperTerminal
>> to null modem into my UPS stuff etc.)
>>
>> The thing is, I've now gone in and read the FAQ a little more and am
>> now confused. Questions;
>>
>> Can't you just connect the PC & Apple together using a single serial
>> cable? From the FAW it looks like you need some sort of itermediary
>> device called a 'null modem' cable! I thought the serial cable was a
>> null modem connction?
>>
>> Also, the PC has tons of zipped Apple files. Can these be unzipped on
>> the Apple (is there software for it?) or is it ness to unzip them
>> first before x-fer?
>>
>> Thanks Again - I'm almost there.....Honest!
>>
>> Marvin Miller
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