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From: fyl@ssc.UUCP (Phil Hughes)
Newsgroups: comp.dcom.lans
Subject: Re: RS232 reference/breakout-box guide
Summary: RS-232 Reference Card
Message-ID: <679@ssc.UUCP>
Date: 17 Dec 90 18:49:34 GMT
References: <1990Dec14.161318.16321@batcomputer.tn.cornell.edu>
Organization: SSC, Inc., Seattle, WA
Lines: 37

In article <1990Dec14.161318.16321@batcomputer.tn.cornell.edu>, rogerj@theory.tn.cornell.edu (Roger Jagoda) writes:
> Fellow netters,
>  
>  Sorry to interrupt this greast discussion about Novell, 802.3, etc., but
>  I want to interject a problem here that some of you probably have dealt
>  with over these years and may be able to help with. Despite the fall
>  of workstation prices and PCs, we still have a lot of uses for dumb
>  ASCII terminals over RS232 lines...also modems via that same route.
>  SOOOOoooo, we make use of TCP/IP terminal servers (this campus uses
>  ANNEX from Xylogics, but there are others...opinions?). Anyway, the
>  question is that there are no real manuals for RS232.

<< First, vested interest warning: I wrote this card >>

I have been working with RS-232 for about 20 years and finally got sick of
there never being a concise reference for what you really need to know (or
what people ask me).  I have looked a numerous books and they generally
tell you too much about what you don't care about (like scope patterns of
distorted waveforms) and not enough about what signals are on the pins
what what to do with them.  So, I wrote an 8-page card that, I think, does
a good job.

Here is the story:
	RS-232 Reference Card
	ISBN 0-916151-42-5
	Price: $3.00
	Published by:
	  SSC
	  P.O. Box 55549
	  Seattle, WA 98155
	  (206) 527-3385 or FOR-UNIX
We (SSC) publishes a whole bunch of UNIX, C and "other" computer related
pocket-sized references and tutorials.

-- 
Phil Hughes, SSC, Inc. P.O. Box 55549, Seattle, WA 98155  (206)FOR-UNIX
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