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From: mahesh@next.nd.edu (Mahesh Subramanya)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next
Subject: Hooking up a terminal to my NeXT
Message-ID: <1991May10.150656.21680@news.nd.edu>
Date: 10 May 91 15:06:56 GMT
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Hey Folks:
    This is slightly embarassing, but I have *NO* clue as to what I
am doing wrong.  
	I want to hook up a Mac to a NeXT with a serial cable.  So,
a) I got a printer cable, hooked it up 'tween serial port A of the NeXT
and the modem port on the Mac
b) On the NeXT, I turned on ttya (in /etc/ttys), and set the terminal type
to vt100, and then rebooted the NeXT (for good measure)
c) On the Mac, I started up kermit (8 bits, no parity)

AND, nothing happened.  THe Mac does not echo anything, butI know
that stuff I type on the Mac's keyboard is getting through.  e.g., 
if I type in my login name and password (blindly), a "w" on the NeXT
shows that I am logged in, but there is NO echo on the Mac's screen.
The cable is fine ( it's a Mac printer cable).  
Any clues?

Am I missing something *so* obvious?  How do I do this?

Thanx...

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Mahesh Subramanya                     INTERNET: mahesh@darwin.cc.nd.edu
Senior Analyst                        
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