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From: mat@emcard.UUCP (W Mat Waites)
Newsgroups: comp.binaries.ibm.pc.d
Subject: Serial Port Flow Control ????
Message-ID: <8214@emcard.UUCP>
Date: 9 Oct 90 17:22:18 GMT
Reply-To: mat@emcard.UUCP (W Mat Waites)
Organization: Emory Univ CDB
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Help!

I'm helping a friend set up his PC. He's got an old LaserJet with
serial interface only. He's got program that only print to the
parallel port.

We did the:

mode com1:96,n,8,1
mode lpt1:=com1:

or whatever and we DO get output. But of course, when the LJ goes to
print a page, it wants the data flow to pause. The BIOS serial port
software doesn't handle software handshaking at all. Does anyone have a TSR
to performs the ^S/^Q handshaking transparently over the serial port?

I checked simtel and there is "FLOW.ASM" but I don't have an assembler.

Thanks,

Mat

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W Mat Waites              |  Unlike most of you, I am not a nut.
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