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|    mark lewis to Armin Schwarz    |
|    eCS 1.2 to VPC 2005 Serial Comm    |
|    03 Sep 10 19:53:12    |
       AS> I'm trying to communicate from eCS 1.2 (guest) to COM1 on Win XP        AS> (host) and nothing is going through. I've mapped the eCS virtual        AS> COM1 to the physical COM1 but can't get any communications going        AS> (using a serial cable to another PC and running a terminal program,        AS> eCS has com.sys installed).               how have you tested if the serial data is actually making it to the physical       serial port? when i run into problems like this, i always use a breakout box       with LEDs on the lines so that i can see what signals the lines have and if       any data does actually come out of the physical serial port...              )\/(ark               * Origin: (1:3634/12)    |
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