Apologies for breaking the thread. The original mail mysteriously vanished.

Miles Nordin wrote:

> MMJ _plug_ (this is male,              PeeCee plug (DB9 female)
> the thing that goes into 
> the DEC 3000.  If you wire 
> to an RJ12 jack and use an 
> MMJ jumper, it's backwards.)
> 
>          1  -------------->>>>>>>-----------  8
>          2  -------------->>>>>>>-----------  2
> 
>          3,4-------------ground---------------5
> 
>          5  --------------<<<<<<<-----------  3
>   [Key]  6  --------------<<<<<<<-----------  7
> 
>                            short together 1,4,6
>                            these 3 inside
>                            DB9 housing

Thanks Miles. I tried this cable setup, as well as several others I found on 
the 'net. Hardware flow control seems to elude me regardless. I have found 
that with some of the cables software flow control does work.

I reckon there's a bug, either in minicom or in whatever piece of code talks 
to the serial console on my 3000. I'll start trying to diagnose the problem 
once I have a workable system.

Cheers,
-- 
Mark Ter Morshuizen