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In article <6773@news.duke.edu> dblakele@hercules.acpub.duke.edu writes:
> Greetings,
> 
> On a current grant/project I'm involved with, our Primary Investigator
> has deemed that we use Macintosh's as our presentation standard for 
> the meetings.  (I can use the NeXT, as long as it can send output to
> a Mac)  As of late, I've been getting rather symbiotic with a PowerBook
> 170 on loan from the project office to review Medline abstracts.  Now,
> somebody here at Duke was spreading rumors that they had successfully
> hooked a Mac PowerBook up to their NeXT.  That sounds intriguing, since
> I've got a copy of Executor (a nod to all the nice folks at ARDI,  
especially
> Cliff Matthews).
> 
> Has anybody had any luck or thoughts on doing this?  If so, drop me a  
line
> down south (or north depending on where you are).  Thanx.
> 
> Peace
> 
> 
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I'm using MacLinkPlus/PC from DataViz to connect my NeXTstation and  
Powerbook 170 via their supplied cable. The nice thing about this product  
is the translators so I can get (for example) from FrameMaker on my NeXT  
and Mac to WordPerfect for those unenlightened souls who use MS-DOS. I  
have had some problems receiving large data files from the NeXT via the  
cable which DataViz was unable to resolve (although, the Mac->NeXT  
transfer has always worked); supposedly the Powerbooks have a glitch in  
their serial ports which I suspect may be the problem. Hmm,...  to get  
around the transfer problem I just used a DOS-formatted disk as the  
transfer medium but I suppose I should try hooking the Powerbook to the  
NeXT via the printer port and see if the problem goes away....

For what it's worth,

Mark.
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Mark Kotanchek
Guidance & Control Dept - 363 ASB
Applied Research Lab/Penn State
P.O. Box 30
State College, PA 16804