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echo: hs_modems
to: MINH VAN
from: FRANK SEXTON
date: 1998-02-17 17:58:00
subject: null modem cable

-=> /* Quoting Minh Van to Reggie Arford */ <=-
 MV> ok. so my current problem right now is that i've
 MV> bought a $14 2m serial-serial cable, and its totally
 MV> useless because you're saying that i need to switch
 MV> the rcv and xt wires on them which'll probably requre
 MV> some nifty soldering...
Problem is that you can't have the transmit wire from one
computer feeding into the transmit wire of another.  They
have to be reversed xmt/rcv.
You might want to see if your local computer store has a
null modem adapter for the end of the cable.
-Frank
(fsexton@ibm.net - http://www.concentric.net/~fsexton)
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