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Xref: sserve comp.unix.bsd:14485 comp.os.linux.development:12692 Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd,comp.os.linux.development Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!bunyip.cc.uq.oz.au!munnari.oz.au!comp.vuw.ac.nz!waikato!ames!elroy.jpl.nasa.gov!usc!howland.reston.ans.net!europa.eng.gtefsd.com!MathWorks.Com!solaris.cc.vt.edu!news.ans.net!potogold.rmii.com!gcs!mark From: mark@gcs.com (Mark Bolzern) Subject: Re: APC UPS owners or potential buyers, trying to show user base Organization: WorkGroup Solutions (FlagShip) & GCS, Inc. Date: Tue, 2 Aug 1994 04:42:22 GMT Message-ID: <Ctw52M.I9o@gcs.com> References: <CtpoIA.JJH@newsserver.aggregate.com> <31ffcm$9l6@sndsu1.sinet.slb.com> <CttA8L.LBy@newsserver.aggregate.com> Lines: 31 In article <CttA8L.LBy@newsserver.aggregate.com>, Rob Healey <rhealey@sirius.aggregate.com> wrote: >In article <31ffcm$9l6@sndsu1.sinet.slb.com>, > <michael@starbase.neosoft.com> wrote: >> >>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 emphasis is on the word DONGLE above. I just spoke with an > old friend and there is a circuit board that is housed in one > end of the cable that has misc. micro electronic parts on it. This > could be RS232<->???? converters or some sort of dongle thing. In > other words, it's more than just pin x to pin y sort of thing > for the Smart UPS from APC. True, and I blew the brains out of a serial card and a UPS messing with this on an APC, and an SCO box not too long ago. -- Mark Bolzern : mark@gcs.com USA Tel: (303) 699-7470 Fax: (303) 699-2793 WorkGroup Solutions, Inc. The FlagShip "Clipper and XBase on Unix" People FlagShip is a 4GL Database Development System & Xbase Porting Tool for Unix No Runtime Fees Info at ftp.wgs.com : /pub2/wgs/Filelist OR mail: info@wgs.com