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- Newsgroups: comp.dcom.modems
- Path: netcom.com!puma
- From: puma@netcom.com (Gary Breuckman)
- Subject: Re: Q:HoW to make the best null cable?
- Message-ID: <pumaDoJIG4.1uw@netcom.com>
- Organization: organized?? me?
- References: <4ikrd6$uj@aftermath.hol.gr>
- Date: Wed, 20 Mar 1996 00:24:04 GMT
- Sender: puma@netcom11.netcom.com
-
- In article <4ikrd6$uj@aftermath.hol.gr>,
- Midnight Rambler <nkal@aftermath.hol.gr> wrote:
- >Can anyone post some step-by-step instructions how to do it?
-
-
- The easiest solution, if you don't need status lines, is...
- Trans 2 --> 3 Receive
- Recv 3 <-- 2 Transmit
- Gnd 7 --- 7 Gnd
-
- If you want to tie the status lines high on each end, and
- not use any more wires in the cable... Do the same as above
- and then on each end connect
- DTR (term ready) 20 --> 6 Carrier detect DCD
- & 8 Dataset ready DSR
-
- RTS (req to snd) 4 --> 5 Clr to send CTS
- These connections are within the connector on BOTH ends,
- and do not go end-to-end.
-
-
- If you want to actually pass the status lines end-to-end,
- do the same but from one end to the other, like so
-
- 2 --> 3 TX RX
- 3 <-- 2 RX TX
- 7 --- 7 G G
- 20 --> 6 & 8 DTR - DCD & DSR
- 6 & 8 <-- 20 DCD & DSR - DTR
- 4 --> 5 RTS CTS
- 5 <-- 4 CTS RTS
-
- This is how most commercial null modem cables are made.
-
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