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From: anderson@macc.wisc.edu (Jess Anderson)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next
Subject: NeXT Serial to PC Serial
Message-ID: <1991Jun6.193222.6974@macc.wisc.edu>
Date: 6 Jun 91 19:32:22 GMT
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One of our users wants to move quite a few files (~400 MB)
from a DOS machine (AT compatible) to his NeXT (he has, get
this, *two* 1.2GB disks on the NeXT!).  What he's thinking
of doing is connecting the two machines together with a
proper NeXT modem cable to a null modem to the DOS machine's
serial port.

He's prepared for it to take a while, I guess.

I would think borrowing an ethernet card for the DOS side
would be much better, but let's assume he can't swing that.

Is the serial-to-serial thing likely to work?

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