[SunRescue] Egads! Serial battles...

[emp7 at cornell.edu]

While waging the battle against "Too much hardware to fit into my room" I 
decided to teach my old powerbook 170 how to pretend to be a serial 
terminal so that I might rescue old, headless suns without needing a real 
serial terminal (or even worse, a monitor and keyboard).  Alas, I 
couldn't see any signals using combinations of ZModem, Kermit, mac modem 
cables, sun serial cables and all of the above w/and w/out a null modem 
connector.  I've been using "Serial of Champions" to watch the serial 
port and it doesn't seem to see any signal at all going in.

So, I'm sure that someone on this list does this unholy interplatform 
mating on a regular basis, and was hoping that you could tell me what 
program you use, what kind of cable you use and what sort of settings I 
might be botching up.  <humor class=lame>And if you could come over and set 
it up for me...</humor>

Thanks a bunch,

--eric
...who has benevolently spared everyone the "serial killer" puns...