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From: nghiem@ut-emx.UUCP (Alex Nghiem)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc,comp.sys.mac
Subject: Re: Can I network my MAC II to my IBM AT?
Summary: Kermit and a Null Modem cable?
Keywords: mac II, IBM AT, MacLink
Message-ID: <7395@ut-emx.UUCP>
Date: 28 Oct 88 05:27:43 GMT
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Organization: The University of Texas at Austin, Austin, Texas
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|In article <4766@mnetor.UUCP>, frank@mnetor.UUCP (Frank Kolnick) writes:
|> In article <318@wuibc.UUCP> dwd0238@wucec3.wustl.edu (David Deitch)` writes:| >
|> >	I want to find a way to send files from a mac II to an IBM AT and
|> >visa-versa.  Text files, that is.  Just what sort of networking have people
|> >been doing between these machines, and what are you using?  Inquiring minds
|> >would like to know.
|> 
|> If it's one Mac to one AT -- which happens to be my set-up -- you should
|> consider MacLink Plus by DataViz.  It transfers and *converts* (Word, Lotus,
|> text, binary, etc.) files very quickly via a serial cable (provided).  It
|> can also provide conversion between different formats on the same
|> machine.  It's not a network but it meets my needs and I'm very satisfied
|> with it.

|> Frank Kolnick,
|> consulting for, and therefore expressing opinions independent of, Computer X
|> UUCP: {allegra, linus}!utzoo!mnetor!frank

A cheaper way is to get Kermit for the Mac and Kermit for 
the IBM from cu20b.columbia.edu, using the FTP anonymous login, or
from your local BBS. With Kermit, either machine can be run as
a server and the remote machine can get files from the server fairly easily.
You would only need to purchase a null modem cable for connecting the IBM
to the Mac.

nghiem@emx.utexas.edu.