John Verity deftly typed--
>You don't need Ethernet or USB to make this transfer. You can use a >standard Apple cable, the kind used to connect to a printer, and just >connect one machine to the other via each one's Printer or Modem port. That's a null modem cable. It connects serial ports (which were found on older macs to connect to printers and external modems.) Modern Macs don't have serial ports. >You just need to configure each respective machine to connect via >AppleShare thru the proper port -- do this in the Chooser. > >Granted, this is relatively slow -- you may have to wait about an hour >for a full disk to move across -- but it works and is way cheap. IIRC G4s don't have serial ports; the last Macs to feature serial ports were made in the late '90s. Cheers. bevon ___________________________________________________________________________ To unsubscribe send a mail message with a SUBJECT line of "unsubscribe" to <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> or <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
