Subject: Re: Idiots guide to serial ports.
To: Dr R.S. Brooks <R.S.Brooks@liverpool.ac.uk>
From: Ceri Storey <cez@necrofish.org.uk>
List: netbsd-users
Date: 12/18/2002 11:50:58
On Wed, Dec 18, 2002 at 11:37:16AM +0000, Dr R.S. Brooks wrote:
> Perhaps (as I did some time ago) you bought a so-called null-modem cable
> from your local Maplin shop? AFAIR, the one I got had *most* of the
> connections you'd expect, but with one rather important omission:
> nothing whatsoever connected to DCD at either end! I returned it as
> misrepresented goods.
Yes, I did indeed buy it from Maplin. :)
Thanks for that information :)
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Ceri Storey <cez@compsoc.man.ac.uk>