Transferring iMac stuff to eMac

Hi. I got my new eMac this afternoon. Can anyone tell me (in the plainest English possible please!) how I can transfer files & applications from my old iMac G3 to the new eMac?
The G3 doesn't have Firewire facility, so I can't do it that way.
It's running OS 9.2 so I believe Setup Assistant won't be any use?
Am I right in thinking you can do it if you connect both machines with an Ethernet cable? How does that work?
I'd be grateful for any help, guys!
iMac G3 Mac OS 9.2.x new eMac Combo OS X 10.4

crackercrackpot,
I'll second Patrick's suggestion of using a USB thumb drive; they've gotten pretty inexpensive in the last year, with 1 GB models selling for less than 128 MB ones did a year and a half ago. The USB thumb drive will be quicker than CD-R, and USB support is built into OS 9. A thumb drive also makes it easy to sneakernet files around from one computer to another.
One cavet though: when moving files from OS 9 onto OS X, you have to watch out for how OS X handles the old OS 9 and earlier spit between data and resource forks in a file. A straight copy from OS 9 to OS X may leave the file on OS X looking like a Unix executable and unusable as the Mac application or file is it. Some file types (those without resource forks, such as JPEG picture files) can transfer 'as is' with no problems. For applications and some file types that mix data and resource forks, it's better to compress the source on the OS 9 Mac (using StuffIt if you have it, or any freeware binhex or zip utility --- check the OS 9 section of Version Tracker). Put the OS 9 applications and files in a transfer folder, compress the folder, copy it onto USB thumb drive, move the thumb drive to OS X, copy the folder onto the OS X hard drive, uncompress. After you've done that a few times, you'll find it takes longer to describe it than to do it.

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