Switch to switch cross cable ?

Well yesterday i read in a cisco book saying that you should have a cross cable when connecting switch to switch & a straight cable when connecting workstation to a switch , but currently i have stright all through , switch to switch or switch to pc .
network seems to run fine, why is this ?
thanks

Hi Malutaru1234,
I think you have copied exactly the same lines from my first post without checking that Fasi74 had alraedy replied that he is having 1900 switch.
Also it is not necessary that he need to configure trunk between the 2 switches when connected via cross over cable becuase trunk is just to pass the information of more than 1 vlan. If you have single vlan in your network you can connect the 2 switches via access link also.
Regards,
Ankur

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