Snow Leopard and Classic Mac OS — #53

Post #53 by napabar

Source Forum	68kMLA
Category	Networking
Post Date	Mon, 7 Sep 2009 - 04:55
Original URL	https://68kmla.org/bb/threads/snow-leopard-and-classic-mac-os.18406/

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OK, I got MacTerminal 2.2 and ZTerm to work. The correct combination was to set MacTerminal to use MacBinary under the File Transfer options, and send the file from ZTerm as Xmodem. ... I'm going to get a Keyspan USB to serial adapter, and give this a whirl from Snow Leopard and ZTerm to my LC running MacTerminal 2.2. If this works, then it should work on a Mac 128k, since you mentioned 2.2 would work on it.

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Apple is unclear about whether a 128K will officially support MacTerminal 2.2. Only that version 2.0 & 2.1 are incompatible with System 4.1. v. 2.2 is compatible and to use v. 4.0 or earlier. However, the 128K will not support System 4.0 and up. So I know that the 128K will support up to v. 2.1.

Nevertheless, I take it "MacBinary" is available in both v. 1.1 and 2.2 and otherwise the settings are the same. If so, v. 1.1 should work with XTerm as well. One question comes to mind as you are using a significantly more modern LC, running System 6 or 7? And what version of XTerm? What System on your 512K (I presume you were going from the LC to your 512K) – and v.2.2 on both?

I wonder if the 68K version of XTerm on your LC behaves the same as XTerm under Snow Leopard? The reason I wonder is that I'm certain I had MacTerminal set to MacBinary when I first tried to connect with XTerm from TIger using "Xmodem" protocol, though I may not have had that exact combination when I was testing. Perhaps there is an additional setting necessary in the OS X version, not required in the 68K version.

AFP under Snow Leopard

Also, I notice on my "Sharing" pane in System Prefs under Snow Leopard that the "File Sharing" service settings has an "Options" button that allows "Share files and folders using AFP" which was disabled by default. I presume you checked this and it still killed connecting to a legacy system?

I had assumed you had used MacTerminal 2.2 on your Mac 128k before. Is this not the case?

MacTerminal 1.1 crashes on my LC running system 6, so I had to fire it up in Mini vMac. It does not have a MacBinary option. There are more options in 2.2, including MacBinary. That was the ticket.

My setup is as follows. LC running System 6 with MacTerminal 2.2. I set MacTerminal to connect to "Another Computer" instead of "Modem", set baud rate to 19200, The protocol to "MacBinary", turned on "Local Echo" and tuned Handshake to "XOn/XOff"

I connected the LC using standard Apple Din-8 printer/serial cable to my PowerMac 6500.

On the 6500, I am running ZTerm 1.1B7 (PowerPC Classic Mac OS version). This is the same version as the Mac OS X version. The developer decided not to have a unified Carbon version for technical reasons.

The ZTerm settings are also 19200, Local Echo, and XOn/XOff. I send and receive using XModem.

I did some more tests tonight. I was able to send and receive files from my LC and MacTerminal to network shares on my 6500 using ZTerm. Resource fork included. Freakin' sweet! Mac 128k to iDisk, here we come!