Thanks Rick, Martin, der Mouse, and al, that's great. Something 
strange, this UPS cable's pinout does not seem straight, altough martin 
silence wrote :
> I've built one and it works.
> It's a straight through.
I'll warm up my soledering iron and test both solutions.

Thanks anyway .


On lundi, mars 10, 2003, at 20:17 Europe/Paris, Rick Sulack wrote:

> well, I googled this.  it looks like it is a cable for APC UPS :-)
>
> here is the pin layout:
>
> 	http://www.nullmodem.com/ups.htm
>
> -rick
>
> On Monday, March 10, 2003, at 11:00  AM, der Mouse wrote:
>
>> 940-0024B
> __
> rick sulack
> darwin core os group
> apple computer, inc
> --------------------------------------------------------------
> "More computing sins are committed in the name of efficiency (without 
> necessarily achieving it)
> than for any other single reason - including blind stupidity" -Wulf 
> 1972
>