[Soekris] DB9 <-> DB9 crossover pinout?

[Peter Seebach]

In message <20030526012111.05DE762335 at smtp.us2.messagingengine.com>, soekris at mi
kemee.com writes:
>Can someone please point me at a description of a cross-over cable that
>works nicely
>between a Soekris and PC?  I've got a bunch of DB-9 females and some 4
>conductor multi-strand telephone cable and I'm hoping that I can rig
>something with that. I'll double up the cable if need be, though
>obviously if I can jump some pins on each side that would be nice too -
>e.g. I vaguely recall jumped CTS to DTS in the old CP/M days worked
>nicely but its been a while!. I won't be downloading over this cable,
>just usual console stuff.

The best way to do this is to use something like the Yost serial cabling
standard so you don't have to worry about which is which.

-s