At 2:29 PM -0500 10/3/00, Philip Brodd wrote:
>I actually did try tip before minicom, but I haven't had any luck with
>either.  I'm thinking now that my cable the culprit.  It's from an old Mac
>modem, I believe, so I figured it would be fine.
>
>Does this need to be some kind of null modem cable?

The pinout for Mac/Modem cables should be a FAQ, but I just looked 
and it isn't.  I'll have to give Colin something on the subject.  If 
this were a Mac printer then any old Imagewriter cable should have 
the correct lines swapped.

You can use a voltmeter to check that you have the right polarity on 
send and receive.  (The send line should have a bigger voltage than 
the receive line.)  For the handshaking it gets more complicated.


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