Yes, but the data conversion is the "easy" part. (For example, it does not matter what
endianness the computers have, since communications software like should take care of
that, shouldn't it?)
Nobody described, however, how to set up any hardware connection (except one person
who said it can be done with a cable that has to be built first). What can I use to
transmit the data?
For example, if I have a modem on the Mac and another on the Linux box, can I just
connect them somehow with a phone cable? If so, what software would allow me to use
such a setup?
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On Tue, 21 Sep 1999 22:36:13 Del Kennedy wrote:
>Hey - Mac is like, Motorola-style Big-endian, and the rest of the
>universe is little-endian, so I think you may have to accept that
>there's a translation required. Personally, I used to have a Mac and
>transferred all my 68000 files across to i386 using MacOpener by DataViz
>([EMAIL PROTECTED]).
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>Del Kennedy.
>
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>> What, it should take 1 hour of work, including creating new hardware, to obtain a
>transmission only twice as fast as an old modem on the phone line? That's hardly
>better than uploading all files to some server somewhere and downloading them again.
>Doesn't anyone have a more practical solution, along the lines of "Stick the Mac
>Modem cable into the PC serial port instead of the modem and run programs X and Y on
>the machines to transfer all files unattended"?
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