Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rpi!usc!orion.oac.uci.edu!hardy From: hardy@golem.ps.uci.edu (Meinhard E. Mayer (Hardy)) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next Subject: Re: How to make a cable for the NeXT serial port. Message-ID: Date: 27 Mar 91 22:03:03 GMT References: <419@rosie.NeXT.COM> Organization: U.C.Irvine, Dept. of Physics Lines: 21 Nntp-Posting-Host: golem.ps.uci.edu In-reply-to: amm@NeXT.COM's message of 27 Mar 91 20:19:47 GMT Sorry -- I used one particular mac-modem cable for dialout and it worked with my Intel 2440 baud modem. I have not tried dialin, and that may well not work. As a good theoretical physicist I used mathematical induction from 1 to n! I diagnosed that the printer cable was miswired (for the NeXT, so I built one for the LaserJetIIP). I still have some problem printing huge files, but this is probably a printcap problem and not a cable problem, which I will get to sooner or later (I am hoping against hope that it will disappear when I upgrade to 2.1). One criticism though: if the printed manual page is wrong, and some people don't have manual pages on line (I do, that's where I got the cabling diagram), how is a poor student to know what cable to use? Couldn't NeXT just include a modem cable ( about $5 wholesale), preferably BLACK, and thus save lots of people lots of headaches? Hardy -------****------- Meinhard E. Mayer (Prof.) Department of Physics, University of California Irvine CA 92717;(714) 856 5543; hardy@golem.ps.uci.edu or MMAYER@UCI.BITNET