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From: michael@starbase.neosoft.com
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Subject: Re: APC UPS owners or potential buyers, trying to show user base
Date: Sun, 31 Jul 94 00:02:45 PDT
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In article <CtpoIA.JJH@newsserver.aggregate.com>, 
> 	The Smart-UPS's use some sort of dongle RS232 cable if I remember
> 	correctly, i.e. it's not a normal RS232 cable since it has extra
> 	components in it. Once you have one of those cables its some sort
> 	of 1 or 2 letter commands sort of thing to get info out of the
> 	UPS.

Even if the pinouts are radically different from RS232 - making a new 
cable is a trivial task -- you don't have to pay the vendor if you can
roll your own.  

The cable (as well as I can remember) has either a 9 or 25 pin connector
on the computer side, and probably a 9 pin on the UPS end.  This means 
that a cable with at least 9 elements should do...