Re: Help? //gs -> DOS machine file tran...how?

[ddoms@tyrell.net (Dennis Doms)]

In article <3ma42s$n9g@ionews.ionet.net>, kgreen@ionet.net (Kevin S.
Green) wrote:

> Could anyone give me some pointers on how to transfer some files from
> my Apple //gs to a DOS machine (blech) I've brought home from work?
> 
> The preferred method, because of how many, would be a direct connection
> between the two machines. I just don't know how to accomplish it.

RE the connection: start with a IIgs to ImageWriter I (_not_ II), or a IIe
to ImageWriter II (not I :) cable, or a IIgs to Hayes modem cable.
(Whatever you have on hand or can locate.)

If you use a modem cable, add a "null modem adapter" (should be available
where most PC supplies are sold; usually you'll have a male and female
DB-25 connector on it). You don't need to do this for the printer cables
because they should (theoretically) already work as a null modem. (You may
find out on the IIe that the "printer" cable is a "modem" cable and they
expect you to use the null modem block on the Super Serial Card to
"invert" the cable. In which case you may still need the null modem
adapter here.)

Add a gender changer (female DB-25 at each end) to mate the Apple (male)
serial cable to the expected PC (also male) serial adapter gender.

Finally, add a PC 9-pin to 25-pin serial adapter, or a PC/AT (DB-9 female
at one end, DB-25 male at the other).

The above combination should give you a workable null modem cable for the
connection. Then try the transfer between your IIgs comm program and
Procomm (ZMODEM would make it easiest). (I'm assuming you know how you
plan to use the files once transferred).

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