Re: HW Flow control pins?

John Storms (jstorms@livingston.com)
Fri, 06 Sep 1996 15:30:50 -0700

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At 09:44 PM 9/4/96 -0700, you wrote:
>
>I want to hook up an Apple Laserwriter II to my portmaster with 8 conductor
>wire. Previously I was using a 25pin straight thru cable. I think the
>printer uses hardware flow control.
>
>What pins on a db25 do I want to use? Obviously 2 and 3. 8 and 20?
>
>What else?

RS-232 Signals and their functions

1 Frame Ground
2 Transmit Data, TD
3 Receive Data, RD
4 Request to Send, RTS
5 Clear to Send, CTS
6 Data Set Ready, DSR (The Portmaster does nothing on this signal)
7 Signal Ground, GND
8 Data Carrier Detect, DCD
20 Data Terminal Ready, DTR
22 Ring Indicator, RI

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