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From: perley@trub.steinmetz (Donald P Perley)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: Help with AUX and terminal
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Date: 1 Mar 89 14:23:20 GMT
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In article <2030160@hpcilzb.HP.COM> daves@hpcilzb.HP.COM (Dave Scroggins) writes:

>I am having a bit of a problem with my serial port I hope someone
>can help me with.


>I make sure the AUX is mounted, then type, "newcli AUX:" as it says in the
>1.3 manual. I make sure the baud rates and such is set right.

>But nothing happens with the terminal. No commands entered, no echo, Zip!

Did you remember to put a null modem in the line?  I don't remember the 
pin numbers, but with rs232 you have a "send" line and a "receive" line.
Normally your amiga, or your terminal, writes data to one, and the modem
writes data to the other.  With the terminal connected directly to the
computer, both are writing to the "send" line (which no one is reading),
and both are reading the "receive" line (which no one is writing to).

The null modem swaps the lines in the middle so what one side writes can
be read on the other end.


-don perley