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From: lphillips@lpami.wimsey.bc.ca (Larry Phillips)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware
Subject: Re: HELP (!!!) needed hooking Mac+ to Amiga 2000
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Date: 23 Mar 90 06:01:38 GMT
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In <1990Mar22.052652.351@spectre.ccsf.caltech.edu>, toddpw@tybalt.caltech.edu (Todd P. Whitesel) writes:
>za003@zeus.unomaha.edu writes:
>
>>  I'm /trying/ to hook up an Amiga 2000 and Mac+ via the Amiga's serial port
>>and the Mac's modem port.  I can get the Mac to send to the Amiga, but when
>>I try to send something (anything) to the Mac, all I get is GARBAGE!!!  (To
>>be exact, I get lots of graphic symbols, upside down question marks, etc...
>
>There's nothing wrong with your cable, the Amiga's terminal program is doing
>something it shouldn't: it's setting the hi bit on every character it sends.

>I don't understand why the comm program you're using sets the hi bit.
>There should be an option to turn it off. But if you can get the Mac comm
>program to ignore the hi bit then that will also work.

Could be a parity problem. If the preferences setting or the terminal program
itself is set for 7 bits, no parity, it's likely the problem. 8 bits, no parity
may cure it.

-larry

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