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From: ogawa@orion.arc.nasa.gov (Arthur Ogawa)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next
Subject: Re: silly cables
Message-ID: <1991Mar2.094628.8660@news.arc.nasa.gov>
Date: 2 Mar 91 09:46:28 GMT
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In article <27CD581B.12634@maccs.dcss.mcmaster.ca> cs4ed3ap@maccs.dcss.mcmaster.ca (Tyldesley     A) writes:
|In article <1991Feb22.170758.2792@csn.org!datran2> smb@csn.org!datran2 writes:
|>In article <27C2E5DE.6775@maccs.dcss.mcmaster.ca> cs4ed3ap@maccs.dcss.mcmaster.ca (Tyldesley     A) writes:
|>>>If you want modem control and hardware flow control, then *no* Mac serial
|>>>cable will work.

I believe there is an innaccuracy here. There _IS_ a cable for Mac that
supports hardware flow control: it is made by Hayes. I'm using one right now
with my T2500 ;-) And it does provide for hardware flow control.
Presumably there are other cables that do this as well.