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From: gmoff@ccu1.aukuni.ac.nz (Moffat)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.comm
Subject: Re: kermit Mac <-> MS-Dos woes
Message-ID: <1990Nov22.044247.809@ccu1.aukuni.ac.nz>
Date: 22 Nov 90 04:42:47 GMT
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jtt@cunixd.cc.columbia.edu (James T. Tanis) writes:

>I'd like to do some simple file-transfer between my MS-DOS box and my mac,
>so I decided to use kermit. I've sucessfully used it between two macs
>over serial lines.
>But I cannot get anything to happen between a mac and PC. All the settings
>(speed, parity, handshake, flow control, favorite liquor) are the same on
>the two platforms, but nothing comes accross.
>I have a feeling the PC kermit might be sensing lack of dtr, but don't know
>how to disable this.
>Or perhaps it's a bigend-littleend problem???

I have had no problems doing this with only three wires (data in/out,
ground) connecting each, with no other links on the cable. Software used was
locally written terminal emulators for both mac & pc, using kermit
transfer.
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