Your "Recv Pace" is also know as "Flow Control" and a method for 
stopping/starting data flow. The DTR flow control is a hardware signal 
that must be on for any data to flow. DEC never used DTR for flow 
control, but it did use Xon/Xoff. The values of 64/128 are thresholds of 
data in your terminal buffer when the flow control stops and starts. No 
flow control, or "None", will only cause some data loss when the volume 
of data overflows your terminal buffer. This happens more often at 
faster baud rates, when your display is slow like with "Smooth 
Scrolling", or stopped with a "Hold Screen" function. You should disable 
all flow control using "None" at first until you get it working. Then 
later you can adjust the flow control setting to prevent data loss as 
needed.

bart sikkes wrote:
> thanks for all the info so far, i should have googled a little more i
> noticed once i started with some of the words i saw in the replies,
> there is some good information out there. as pointed out i found this
> site that shows the pin assignment (or whatever it is called) for such
> a MMJ to MMJ cross cable (im sure its the MMJ connector my cable has).
>
> http://www.lammertbies.nl/comm/cable/dec-mmj.html
>
> according to that site the cable should map 1 to 6, 2 to 5, 3, to 4, 4
> to 3, 5 to 2 and 6, 1
>
> but in my cable its like this on one side
> black (1)
> red (2)
> purple (3)
> blue (4)
> white (5)
> green (6)
>
> and this on the other side
> green (6)
> blue (4)
> white (5)
> red (2)
> purple (3)
> black (1)
>
> that doesn't appear to be correct right? i got the cable with one of
> the vaxes, but i don't have a clue with which one, from who it came
> and if it ever worked for that person.
>
> my second question is on the Recv Pace, if i shouldn't select
> DTR/Xon/Xoff what should i select, i can choose from: None, Xoff at
> 64, Xoff at 128 (seems to be the default), DTR and the above mentioned
> DTR/Xon/Xoff.
>
> thanks,
> bart
>
> ps: sorry for the double on dave, first one should be to the list not
> only to you :)
>