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From: g89r4222@kudu.ru.ac.za (Geoff Rehmet)
Subject: Re: sio - problem with login hanging up
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References: <g89r4222.742299445@kudu> <CA0ssD.1r2@sugar.NeoSoft.COM> <1993Jul12.075230.13102@cnplss5.cnps.philips.nl> <CA2HDw.FDp@sugar.NeoSoft.COM>
Date: Tue, 13 Jul 1993 07:32:44 GMT
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In <CA2HDw.FDp@sugar.NeoSoft.COM> peter@NeoSoft.com (Peter da Silva) writes:

>In article <1993Jul12.075230.13102@cnplss5.cnps.philips.nl> rooij@mozart.cft.philips.nl (Guido van Rooij) writes:
>> peter@NeoSoft.com (Peter da Silva) writes:
>> >SIO is pretty fascist about signals, apparently.

>> Could you be more specific?

>SIO requires that you have all the right lines (DTR/DCD/etc) asserted before
>it'll work (I assume, all my cables carry all signals, and reported problems
>seem to be due to people with less complete ones). This isn't bad, it's just
>something you need to watch for.

Yup, a few strokes of the soldering iron fixed things for me. 
You just need to make sure that your cable does carry all the
signals - as Peter mentions, or to jumper the correct pins to
fool the thing.

Geoff.
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