On Sun, 7 Nov 1999 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> > Okay, following reccomendations and my own best guessing I went out and > > purchased a 'Mac to serial printer' cable and a null-modem adapter. > > Ooh, that sounds like a bad combo to me. A null modem should twist the > send and receive lines so that the send from one machine goes to the receive > of the other. If your Mac cable is designed to go to a printer with a > standard RS232 port, then it probably already does that twist, and attaching > another null modem adapter to it does a double twist, putting you back > with send going to send, and receive going to receive. That's a combination > that's guaranteed to fail. I'll try a straight-through as soon as I can get one. Either that or I'll move the IPX closer to the Lintel and just use a sex changer. > > The simplest way to make sure you have the right cabling is to make your > own cables! I have a tendency to mess up my own cables, alas. :/