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Date:      Mon, 29 Oct 2001 12:40:49 +0100
From:      Andrzej Bialecki <abial@webgiro.com>
To:        Poul-Henning Kamp <phk@critter.freebsd.dk>
Cc:        "Julian Stacey Jhs@jhs.muc.de" <jhs@jhs.muc.de>, marjan.mihelin@kclj.si, hackers@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Fiskars UPS
Message-ID:  <3BDD4040.474429BE@webgiro.com>
References:  <11972.1004174881@critter.freebsd.dk>

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Poul-Henning Kamp wrote:
> 
> In message <200110270910.f9R9AD328192@jhs.muc.de>, "Julian Stacey Jhs@jhs.muc.d
> e" writes:
> >"doc. dr. Marjan Mihelin, dipl. ing." wrote:
> >> Hello,
> >> We are using from 1993 Fiskars UPS 0.8 A UPS unit
> 
> Fiskars is part of Invensys/Powercom these days.

Together with a co-worker we reverse-engineered the protocols for ca. 6
different types of Fiskars UPSes - all of them used different packet
formats, even different speeds and parity (!). We couldn't get any docs
from them to help us, only a lousy Win* program... Keep that in mind the
next time you go shopping for a UPS.

-- 

Andrzej

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