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From: zmacy64@flamingo.doc.ic.ac.uk.doc.ic.ac.uk (Charilaos Mitrelias)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st
Subject: HELP : How to connect the ST to my terminal socket via RS232?
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Date: 25 Nov 89 17:16:08 GMT
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Reply-To: zmacy64@doc.ic.ac.uk (Charilaos Mitrelias)
Organization: Imperial College Department of Computing
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   I am trying to connect my ST to a terminal socket, which is connected
to a PAD linked to JANET. I tried all possible
connections but nothing seemed to work. I used the UNITERM terminal emulator 
and Kermit protocol.

   Is there anybody out there that can help me? I would really appreciate
this...

   I have an ATARI 520-STM with the TOS on ROM.
   The terminal socket has the following PINS :
	2,3 : Receive and Send data
	7   : Signal ground
	20  : DTR

   I was told to wire PINS 4 and 5 of my ST together, PINS 8 and 20 of my ST
to PIN 20 of the terminal socket and PIN 7 of my ST to PIN 7 of the 
terminal socket...

   I also do not know how should I configure my RS232 port. That is, should 
I have Xon/Xoff, Rts/Cts, Stop bits, Strip bits etc?
   I read in the news that there is a problem in the ATARI ST O/S for handling
properly the RTS/CTS signal. Could this be probably be the fault?

   I would really appreciate some kind of help.
						THANKS IN ADVANCE...