On Mar 6, 10:30=A0pm, schmidtd  wrote:
> On Mar 6, 2:27=A0am, "Simon D. Williams"
 wrote:> W=
hat I'd like to do is connect the Mac directly to the IIgs via the serial
> > ports (with a Mac printer cable) so that I can login to the BBS from
> > NetBSD.
>
> Maybe this would help?http://dataswamp.net/apple2eserialterm/index.php

I think those instructions are for doing the inverse of what the op
was trying to do.
on the *nix side, you'll need to run a comms program like minicom.
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