Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!csd4.milw.wisc.edu!bionet!ames!pacbell!att!tellab5!toth From: toth@tellab5.tellabs.CHI.IL.US (toth@tellab2 (Tellabs, Inc., - Lisle, Il.)) Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple Subject: Re: Re: Z-Link and //c serial printer port Summary: NULL Modem Interface Required? Message-ID: <1233@tellab5.tellabs.CHI.IL.US> Date: 16 Feb 89 15:10:57 GMT References: <890213013001.26600450@Sds.Sdsc.Edu> <14622@cup.portal.com> <9272@bloom-beacon.MIT.EDU> Organization: Tellabs, Inc. Lisle, IL Lines: 52 In article <9272@bloom-beacon.MIT.EDU>, dcw@athena.mit.edu (David C. Whitney) writes: > In article <14622@cup.portal.com> Geva_Apple-Maniac_Patz@cup.portal.com writes: > >To reply to those people who have sent me mail/conference replies about > >setting Port 1 to printer instead of Modem mode, this does NOT work. > >Z-link (methinks) uses the hardware, anyway, so it wouldn't make any > >difference. Sigh, it would have been so nice... > > Hoping not to muddle the situation too much; I operate using an Enhanced Apple //e using a Apple SSC for modem operations, therefore what I say might not apply directly to a //c. I was under the impression that the modes were Printer/Terminal, and had little to do with whether a modem was attached. The SSC containes a block that gets reversed (making a NULL Modem connection) to allow the computer to talk to a modem or terminal. Then, setting the above mentioned 'mode' allowed the terminal to be used to control the processor (rather than the keyboard). Since there might not be (and I don't think there is) a block on the motherboard of the //c to provide the NULL Modem interface, buying (or making) a NULL Modem Interface and connecting it between your modem and the end of the cable that connects to the //c port might work. > Dave Whitney Third year undergraduate student in Computer Science at MIT > I wrote Z-Link. Send me bug reports. I use a //GS. Send me Tech Info. I also have tried using Z-Link with a Hayes compatible modem. I really would like to use it, but it hasn't passed the first step of my evaluation. I set up the config file, and then edited the macros to provide autodial macros to the systems I connect to; One of them i in the form: atdt,,,,,;h which dials the number, waits 10 seconds (2 for each comma), sends the access number, and then hangs up. I wait for my phone to ring, then I issue an 'adt' command to connect for my session. It dials OK, but then munges up the access number (Missing digits). This command works fine from the Kermit modem selection menu (so I don't see this being a hardware problem) You say that when somebody hasn't paid (I will when I get a copy where this works), their problems go to the bottom of your fix list. I hope that in some cases you make exceptions. -- ------------------------------------------------+--------------------- Maybe I shouldn't have done it, sarcasm is so | Joseph G. Toth Jr. seldom understood. Don't FLAME on me, please. | uunet!tellab5!toth