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From: gt4662b@prism.gatech.EDU (BRANHAM,JOSEPH FRANKLIN)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.tech
Subject: Amax 1.0 Serial Port Usage???
Keywords: Amax
Message-ID: <13529@hydra.gatech.EDU>
Date: 11 Sep 90 00:39:26 GMT
Organization: Georgia Institute of Technology
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Howdy.
I was helping a friend with Amax 1.0. We were trying to download some stuff
off our local unix machine (well hoping to anyway.)

He had a copy of some terminal program called Z-term for the Mac. I brought
my low-tech Concord Data Systems 2400-baud modem over to try and get the
files. 

I have to do my own dialing with this modem. DTR went high when Z-Term
started up. I called and connected with no problems. When I hit return,
I could see TX flickering, but I wasn't waking up the NIU's at the other
end.

My serial cable is wired TX, RX, DTR, DCD, CTS, RTS, GND. Do Mac Terminal
programs require x-on x-off or some other bizarre RS232/422 lines.
I DID make sure there were no checks besides X-on X-off on the flow control
menu option of Z-term.

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