17 Aug
2004
17 Aug
'04
01:02
The Monday 2004-08-16 at 16:53 +0100, Dave Howorth wrote:
I'm no expert, but if you want to use a serial device and you only have a USB port, don't you just buy an adapter cable, like this example? <http://www.maplin.co.uk/products/module.asp?CartID=040816164724600&moduleno=299 68>
Right. Unfortunately, it doesn't always work as expected: notice that for some field uses you need to use old software provided by the manufacturer of the device you are trying to configure - even old dos software. For example, the software may use the serial port directly in hardware... I did that myself years ago, as dos did not have serial port services worth of the name. -- Cheers, Carlos Robinson