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Date:      Sun, 5 Nov 1995 11:23:51 +0100 (MET)
From:      hm@altona.hamburg.com (Hellmuth Michaelis)
To:        chuckr@glue.umd.edu (Chuck Robey)
Cc:        FreeBSD-Questions@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   Re: vt220 interface
Message-ID:  <m0tC2Ex-00001PC@ernie.altona.hamburg.com>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.SUN.3.91.951104151440.3094D-100000@cappuccino.eng.umd.edu> from "Chuck Robey" at Nov 4, 95 03:18:12 pm

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>From the keyboard of Chuck Robey:

> I have a VT220 I want to hook up to a port that has complete modem 
> control leads (my port has the complete leads, the VT220 has what it was 
> born with).  I remember from the last time I tried this, way back, that 
> the VT220 had something weird with the wiring of it's interface, some 
> leads were swapped, but I forget which.  Anybody know?

I had a VT220 connected to a serial port and the cable had just 3 wires,
2, 3 and 7 - don't know if you need to exchange 2 and 3 on one side. The
VT220 can be configured to ignore the modem signals.

hellmuth
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Hellmuth Michaelis           hm@altona.hamburg.com              Hamburg, Europe
                                              (A)bort, (R)etry, (I)nstall BSD ?



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