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I'm trying to hook my NeXT to my Macintosh over a direct serial link and 
not having much luck.  The symptoms are that anything I type on the Mac 
shows up fine on the NeXT, but nothing I type on the NeXT ever shows up on 
the Mac.

I have no problem dialing out to other machines from the Mac.
Interestingly enough, I can dial out to other machines from the NeXT using 
cu or kermit, but if I dial out using tip I get symptoms similar to with 
the direct connection between the NeXT and the Mac.  The login prompt from 
the remote machine and everything I type gets echoed to my screen up until 
the first time I hit return.  The return gets echoed as a CR without a LF.  
The remote machine doesn't seem to see anything I type.  Eventually it 
types something like "Connection timed out" and hangs up the line.
For dialing out I am using a SupraFax V.32bis modem.

Other background:

- The NeXT is a 25Mhz 68040-based color NeXTstation running NeXTstep 2.1

- The Mac is an ancient Mac SE running Finder 6.0.7.
  (Old enough that it doesn't have the floppy drives that can write DOS format)

- I am connecting a Mac printer cable between the serial ports on the two
  machines. I've tried reversing the cable for the heck of it, but no change.

- I am running the latest kermit from sonata on the NeXT, and White Knight
  on the Mac  (White Knight is a terminal emulation program that supports file
  transfers using many different flavors of kermit, xmodem, ymodem, zmodem. 
  I've never had problems dialing out with it to other machines.)

- I've tried using just about every device name for the two com ports on 
  NeXT, but no change (/dev/ttya, /dev/ttyda, /dev/ttyfa, /dev/ttyfda, 
  /dev/cua, /dev/cufa, and their com B equivilants.)


I'd appreciate any help anyone could give me.  Has anybody gotten this to 
work?  Alternately, is there a way to get the NeXT to read standard Mac 
disks (written with the old floppy drives)?  I've tried MacinDisk, but it 
doesn't want to read disks formatted on the Mac and the Mac doesn't want to 
read disks formatted by MacinDisk.

Please e-mail me directly and I'll summarize to the group.  I miss a lot of 
articles posted to the group because of the volume.

Thanks in advance for your help.

-- Erik Ebert
   erik_e1@verifone.com