On Sat, 18 Sep 2004, Robert Foxworth wrote:
> > So here I am, trying to get my mac to output to serial (through the
> > modem) to my pc (through its modem)...using a regular phone cord. I
> > don't have a null modem cable, besides, I've got two different kinds
> of
> > hardware...they don't have the same type of connectors, though they do
> > share the modems and phone cord...
> >
> > Both are running debian, and I know that I'm talking to the modem on
> > each machine, but I can't get the one to output to the other. Or if it
> > is, I can't tell...
> >
> > I'd like to know if it's possible to use a regular phone cord to have
> > one pc output to serial to another pc. Can anyone help!
>
> It sounds like you are trying to get the Mac to talk to the PC via
> the serial ports.
Either log in, or transfer files are my guesses.
> If these computers were running terminal programs, they should link
> directly through the serial ports, assuming those ports were connected
> through a null modem cable,
I think he said he doesn't have one.
> (the Mac may not use this type of connector, either, I am not sure.
> Sounds like that is your case).
Mini-DIN something. Round, similar to a PS/2 port.
> If you get modems involved, then the Com ports talk to the
> serial interface on each modem (assuming they are external
> modems; if they are internal, then no serial lines are even
> involved). The modems would talk to each other through a phone
> cord, which can have just 2 wires, and in that case one modem
> has to be able to be told to "dial" the other.
Would this work without a phone line involved?
> A "regular phone cord" won't work for serial data whenever
> hardware handshaking (RTS-CTS) is needed. It MAY be made
> to work if TD and RD are the only pins you need to send across
> (pins 2 and 3) and software handshaking (XON-XOFF, or, ctrl-Q
> and ctrl-S) are embedded in the data stream, which obviously
> won't work for binary data).
You just escape some characters, similar to how you do SLIP with XON/XOFF
flow control. Not "plug-n-chug" anymore, but hey...
Or uuencode everything...
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