Re: Desjet and 3,0

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From: Matthew Dillon
Date: Thu, 01 Oct 1992 20:00

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In article <BvEp6t.MxM@gate.demon.co.uk> paul@seer.demon.co.uk (Paul Lynch) writes:
>In article <dillon.0ojg@overload.Berkeley.CA.US>
>dillon@overload.Berkeley.CA.US (Matthew Dillon) writes:
>>     Note that your serial cable to the HP500[C] must be wired properly
>for
>>     hardware flow control, and note that the HP500[C] does not use RTS
>for
>>     flow control, but DTR.  It's a mess.  I don't know how you would do
>it
>>     on a non-turbo machine (which doesn't have hardware flow control).
>>
>>					    -Matt
>>
>I do believe that you might be in error.  It's the 030 machine that don't
>do flow control, not the nonTurbo 040s.

    Oh, yup!  your right!  It also occurs to me that I believe you can
    setup the HP-500[C] for XON-XOFF flow control, which ought to work fine
    with binary data since it's the HP sending XON/XOFF to you, not the
    otherway around.

				-Matt

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From: dillon@overload.Berkeley.CA.US (Matthew Dillon)
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Subject: Re:  Desjet and 3,0
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