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From: rhealey@sirius.aggregate.com (Rob Healey)
Subject: Re: APC UPS owners or potential buyers, trying to show user base
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Date: Fri, 29 Jul 1994 16:58:58 GMT
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In article <JOHNSONM.94Jul28233853@calypso-2.oit.unc.edu>,
Michael K. Johnson <johnsonm@calypso-2.oit.unc.edu> wrote:
>   Really now! Those boxes use an RS-232 interface, right? What do they tell 
>   the computer? If they only communicate one thing (power fail) then it
>   is probably something as simple as shorting the RD and SD lines. Get a
>   technician to check it out for you while you pull the plug.
	
	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.

	It's the cables that hurt since they cost more than a simple 232
	cable.

	The UNIXware software is SCO version too, I don't think they have
	a specific version for any other OS.

		-Rob