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- Path: sparky!uunet!world!rhs
- From: rhs@world.std.com (Richard H Schwartz)
- Subject: Hardware flow control
- Message-ID: <Bzoxt6.84u@world.std.com>
- Organization: The World Public Access UNIX, Brookline, MA
- Date: Wed, 23 Dec 1992 02:34:18 GMT
- Lines: 37
-
- I've been using a high speed modem (Practical Peripherals PM14400FXSA)
- for dial-out for many months now. The modem came with a hardware
- handshake cable, and that's been fine. Now I want to do dial-in/dial-out.
-
- How do I set up for hardware flow control? Can I even do it? I
- understand from the FAQ that using hardware flow control means that the
- login doesn't drop if the line disconnects, but in my case I think I
- can live with that. Are there other differences in the configuration
- that I need to know about?
-
- Also, the book that came with the modem shows two wiring diagrams for
- Mac cables:
-
- hardware handshake software handshake
- mac modem mac modem
- 1 20&4 1 20
- 2 5 2 8
- 3 2 3 2
- 4&8 7 4&8 7
- 5 3 5 3
-
- Neither of these matches the configuration shown in the FAQ. The cable
- they shipped, and which I've used for dial-out matches the hardware
- handshake set-up. An old cable I got with a low-speed modem years ago
- has mac pin 2 going to both pin 5 and 8, which matches neither the FAQ
- nor either of the two specs in the modem book.... I'm *so* confused!!!
-
- Maybe the plan in the FAQ is best... use the exact cable and settings
- given... But where can I get such a cable? Do I have to roll my
- own?
-
- -rich
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- Richard H. Schwartz, Scheduling Systems Inc.,
- 1000 Massachusetts Avenue, Cambridge, MA 02138
- (617) 864 8330; FAX (617) 864 8377
- rhs@world.std.com
-