RE: [SLUG] Null modem and phone cord

From: Eben King (eben1@tampabay.rr.com)
Date: Mon Sep 20 2004 - 11:18:20 EDT


On Mon, 20 Sep 2004, Russell Hires wrote:

> No....I have a hardware compatibility nightmare. I want a serial console
> to go from my mac to my pc, both running linux. I did some research and
> found that such cables exist: din9 to rs232...ugh...gotta order one of
> those now.

If you already have a cable from each to a modem, it's prpbably a lot
cheaper simply to get a null-modem adapter that's DB25 on both ends (and
maybe a gender changer).

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and wash it down with a gallon of strawberry Quik.  -- Weird Al

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