Null cable, did you mean Null Modem Cable? Its a serial DTE-DTE cable, the 9 pin wiring is something like:
1,6 4
2 3
3 2
4 1,6
5 5
7 8
8 7
Straight through cable, if you were still talking about serial, its DTE - DCE. and the wiring is obvious... ;-)
But for cat5 ethernet, you have straight through and cross over cables too, but you were not talking about ethernet i suppose.