Hi Rick,
In a message to Pete Granzeau you wrote:
 RF>    I guess I'm not following you...  You can use a serial cable
 RF>    to network computers together too.  That is the way I took
 RF>    "using a serial cable".  Then the file systems matter.  Using
 RF>    a phone line linked by modems -- then the file system doesn't
 RF>    matter.  I don't know how to go about linking external modems
 RF>    together and using comm programs though?
The file systems don't matter in either case.  Data is arriving at the comm 
port, and the transfer program doesn't particularly care if the data came via 
a modem or via a direct wire connection.  All it knows is that data has 
arrived.  It makes calls to the OS to write the data to a file - and _the OS_ 
knows what file system is being used and how to handle that data.  The OS has 
no idea the data came from an external machine, of course, and so doesn't 
care what file system that external machine may have been using.
If you mean you don't know how to use a comm program with a direct cable 
connection, I could understand - and I'll assume that's what you meant.  The 
answer to that is simple:  configure the comm programs for "direct 
connection".
Rick
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