Re: Quick (hopefully) IIgs Question

["william strutts" <wrstrutts1@home.com>]

Do you have the com port on the IIgs configured?  Check
the Com port in Command Control Escape...the control
panel.  Make sure it is set up properly.  You might try
fiddling with hardware handshaking setting.

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"Just Me" <justme@here.com> wrote in message
news:g3t37.687431$166.14172042@news1.rdc1.bc.home.com...
> > Did you initiate the send on the send on the PC?
>
> Yes.
>
> > Do you have the baud rate set to 300 and the
> > settings to 8-n-1?
>
> Yes.
>
> > Did you use the mode command on the PC end to
> > set the com port?
>
> Yes.
>
> > Then type the dump file to the com port.
>
> Yes.
>
> > It should then send the data to the GS and it will
> > automatically enter the data into the monitor and
> > save the file.
>
> Agreed, it *should*.
>
> >If this is ADT that we are talking about.
>
> Yes, it is.  My guess is I still do not have the proper cable setup (hence
> wanting pinouts from someone with a working null cable - I have yet to
find
> an 8DINm to DB9f diagram anywhere on the net with hours involved sifting
> various sites...lots for std serial, even from the 5DINm the IIc
uses...but
> nothing for the IIgs.
>
> I am quite familiar with comm setups etc, having running numerous BBS's in
> the old non-gui days...all PC based however.  I have also built numerous
> custom adapters/cables etc but without any info on the IIgs side of things
I
> find myself more than a bit limited.  I know the PC side of things is
> alright.
>
> My biggest thing is the IIgs side.  If I can get pinouts I can confirm the
> cable setup.  Then if it doesn't work it has to be my lack of ProDOS
> knowledge.  Unless there is other software setup that has to be done on
the
> IIgs side of things.
>
> As it sits I have been pulling my hair out for the past three days and
> generally been driving everyone else around me insane...  *8D
>
> Thanks,
> Mac.
>
> mac@solarwinds.com
>
>