On Wed, 30 Jan 2002 at 18:15:04, you wrote:
(ref: <004a01c1a9ba$0b1018a0$b33387d9@network>)
>The cable I used was a standard null modem lead from Maplin Electronics in
>the UK. No need to mess about sodering wires.
Careful. That is fine on machines with PC style hardware.
That sort of lead (loopback handshaking) will not work to/from QLs
reliably. Roy Wood proved that at the last Byfleet show - and I got
things going with the lead I described. Having no effectively no
handshaking is a PC disease and not to be encouraged (8-)#
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