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- From: tnixon@hayes.com
- Newsgroups: comp.dcom.modems
- Subject: Re: Hardware vs xon/xoff flow control.
- Message-ID: <5890.2a92793a@hayes.com>
- Date: 19 Aug 92 16:39:22 EDT
- References: <1992Aug11.185428.13958@tvnews.tv.tek.com> <5865.2a8a3f6d@hayes.com> <1992Aug14.151606.29021@bilver.uucp>
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- In article <1992Aug14.151606.29021@bilver.uucp>, bill@bilver.uucp
- (Bill Vermillion) writes:
-
- > Toby - while not having read the standard, years ago I was reading a
- > book on RS232 and it was detailing the pin connectors for a DB25.
- > I believe there were 6. What I found amusing was the the 6th
- > 'standard' was that pin 7 shall be signal ground, all others to be
- > user defined.
- >
- > Using that as a guide, I have yet to find any RS232 that didn't meet
- > the 'standard'.
- >
- > Is that actually part of the connector specs?
-
- The earliest version of EIA-232 didn't even define the connector,
- much less the pinouts. This was due to a patent licensing issue
- with the most commonly-used connector. This has since been
- resolved, and later versions of EIA-232 include the connector and
- pinout specifications.
-
- The latest version still has a table which specifies particular
- "applications" and the appropriate circuits to use in each
- application. One of them certainly is almost all user-defined.
- However, it is not that you can swap around the various circuits on
- different pins; it is just that you can pick and choose which
- circuits to implement based on the needs of the application.
-
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