| From: | tesla |
| Date: | 9 May 2000 at 04:24:23 |
| Subject: | Re: well? |
Jonathan:
Thank you for pointing out the obvious, and still replying to my message.
You made some points I had not thought of.
I apologize to all concerened for sending this message to list, I didn't
think about the list being only about 3.5 when I sent it.
Tesla
----- Original Message -----
From: "Jonathan Adamczewski" <jadamcze@utas.edu.au>
To: <amigaOS3_5@egroups.com>
Sent: Monday, May 08, 2000 11:39 PM
Subject: Re: [amigaOS3_5] well?
> On Mon, 8 May 2000, tesla wrote:
>
> > Hello all.
> > I have another hopefully simple question.
> >
> > I am trying to use a program called Linkit, to serially connect my
amiga to
> > my pc. I have used it before with great success, but not, it will not
work.
> > I believe that it doesn't work because i'm no longer using the original
> > cable. I think the only difference between it, and a standard serial
cable
> > is that the LinkIt cable was a null modem cable, and probably had some
> > power lines not connected on the Amiga side, because of the non-standard
> > pin-out of the Amiga's serial port.
>
> Oops.
>
> 1. The amiga's serial port is is really pretty standard (at least no
> _real_ concerns)
> 2. There is a big difference between a null modem and a standard (ie
> straight through) serial cable.
>
> If you've connected two systems together with a straight through cable,
> you _may_ have fried something (it's one of the few things I've never done
> so I'm not exactly sure).
>
> Does the serial port work otherwise? (ie modem, pc mouse, anything... ?)
>
> >
> > I have tried a null modem cable, but to no avail. Anyone know the pinout
of
> > the 3000 Tower for the serial port?
>
> A null modem cable should do the trick (don't see why not, but that's
> ignorance for ya) For pinouts, off the top of my head, TwinExpress from
> aminet has all null modem pinouts in the archive. (and the amiga and pc
> have the same pinouts, just different connectors in some cases.)
>
> It may be that the software uses a different type of cable.
>
> Why was this posted to a 3.5 mailing list? It is not related...
>
>
> Jonathan.
>
>
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