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- From: queue@iastate.edu (Rob Ludwick)
- Subject: Re: A simple query: Imagewriter II -> Amiga Cable?
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- Organization: Iowa State University, Ames IA
- References: <1992Dec8.000723.9126@StarConn.com> <71244@cup.portal.com>
- Date: Thu, 17 Dec 1992 01:38:03 GMT
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- In <71244@cup.portal.com> Dan_E_Babcock@cup.portal.com writes:
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- >>control was not reliable. According to the 1.3 doc, the switch settings
- >>should be set for hardware flow control rather than XON/XOFF, but when I
- >>set the switches that way and changed from XON/XOFF to RTS/CTS protocol
- >>in preferences I was unable to get the printer to go.
- >>Looking at the Imagewriter manual, it looks like DTR and DSR are sent to
- >>the cable, which I guess should end up at the RTS/CTS pins????
-
- >XON/XOFF -should- work fine, and is generally the preferred handshake
- >method for printers (unlike modems). As you noticed, printers don't agree
- >on using RTS/CTS, so you may have to make a custom cable. (Don't ask me how
- >:-)).
-
- >Dan
-
- The connections for the rs-232 to 8-pin-mini-din connector can be found in
- the imagewriter II manual (I know, cause I made one), but they are really
- only using 5 pins out of the rs-232 port with one wire jumpered across two
- others. If the cable you have is like the one I made, don't feel bad,
- I couldn't get RTS/CTS handshaking to work properly either.
-
- I was having the same lack of control on the imagewriter that you had. I
- was going to try changing the baud rate to 4800, when my computer died,
- my reason being if you tried a lower baud rate you should get less characters
- dropping. Go ahead and try this, and let me know (via e-mail) if this worked.
-
- Rob (who doesn't know -MB-)
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