From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Nov 5 03:06:58 1995 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.6.12/8.6.6) id DAA28558 for questions-outgoing; Sun, 5 Nov 1995 03:06:58 -0800 Received: from casparc.ppp.net (casparc.ppp.net [194.64.12.35]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.6.12/8.6.6) with SMTP id DAA28542 for ; Sun, 5 Nov 1995 03:06:48 -0800 Received: from ernie by casparc.ppp.net with uucp (Smail3.1.28.1 #1) id m0tC2pu-000I28C; Sun, 5 Nov 95 12:02 MET Received: by ernie.altona.hamburg.com (Smail3.1.29.1 #3) id m0tC2Ex-00001PC; Sun, 5 Nov 95 11:23 MET Message-Id: From: hm@altona.hamburg.com (Hellmuth Michaelis) Subject: Re: vt220 interface To: chuckr@glue.umd.edu (Chuck Robey) Date: Sun, 5 Nov 1995 11:23:51 +0100 (MET) Cc: FreeBSD-Questions@FreeBSD.org In-Reply-To: from "Chuck Robey" at Nov 4, 95 03:18:12 pm Reply-To: hm@altona.hamburg.com X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL24] Content-Type: text Content-Length: 760 Sender: owner-questions@FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk >From the keyboard of Chuck Robey: > I have a VT220 I want to hook up to a port that has complete modem > control leads (my port has the complete leads, the VT220 has what it was > born with). I remember from the last time I tried this, way back, that > the VT220 had something weird with the wiring of it's interface, some > leads were swapped, but I forget which. Anybody know? I had a VT220 connected to a serial port and the cable had just 3 wires, 2, 3 and 7 - don't know if you need to exchange 2 and 3 on one side. The VT220 can be configured to ignore the modem signals. hellmuth -- Hellmuth Michaelis hm@altona.hamburg.com Hamburg, Europe (A)bort, (R)etry, (I)nstall BSD ?