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- From: psheffield@earthlink.net (Patrick Sheffield)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.networking
- Subject: Re: Direct Connect to Mac
- Date: 29 Feb 1996 10:23:20 GMT
- Organization: Earthlink Network, Inc.
- Message-ID: <922.6629T1410T1745@earthlink.net>
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- >I have an old Mac Plus at home with plenty of room on the external hard
- >drive to store the images. I am using White Knight 11.2 on the Mac and
- >use NComm on the Amiga (I also have JrComm on the Amiga).
-
- Do you have a scsi controller? If so, plug that external drive into your
- Amiga, mount it with CrossMac and copy the files at the speed of scsi.
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- >I've tried to make a direct connection from machine to machine via the
- >telecom programs, but they seem to be looking for a dial tone and won't
- >recognize the direct cable hook up (those are okay).
-
- Perhaps you need a null modem cable?
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- >I also would like to find a common compression program for the Amiga and
- >Mac so I could compress the files on the Amiga and decompress them on the
- >Mac. Does Mac do Lha? I need to use these images to create a web page on
- >the Mac. (Don't have the set-up to do this on the Amiga yet.)
-
- Yes, MacLha is available...
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- Patrick Sheffield
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