Re: Getting files from a IIGS to a Mac OS X Mac (G5)... how can you do it?

[scott@alfter.DIESPAMMERSDIE.us (Scott Alfter)]

In article <542313ba-e37a-4a42-9e26-38c10e22d778@a21g2000prf.googlegroups.com>,
bloomer_au  <bloomer@iprimus.com.au> wrote:
>I've read about null modem cables, but most posts on this topic
>archived on the net seem to be pretty ld. I'm asking in the here and
>now - is there a way to use a cable or two to literally connect a G5
>to a IIGS and have them swap files somehow? That's what I'd love to
>do.

If you have a serial port on your G5 (would have to be a PCI or USB add-on
of some sort), you could fire up some comm software on both machines and
send files back and forth over a null-modem cable.  Back when networking
hardware was expensive, that's what I did.

Nowadays, I have the IIGS connected to the LAN through a GatorBox CS and
move files between the IIGS and a G4 mini through a Linux box running
netatalk.  The IIGS and the mini won't talk to each other directly because
the IIGS only supports an older variety of AFP and Mac OS X only supports a
newer variety, but netatalk supports both.

If you set up your Mac to dual-boot Mac OS X and Linux, you'd only need a
LocalTalk-to-Ethernet bridge (such as the GatorBox CS I use) to move files
directly between machines.

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