Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Path: utzoo!mnetor!uunet!seismo!ll-xn!cullvax!drw From: drw@cullvax.UUCP (Dale Worley) Newsgroups: comp.emacs Subject: 9600 baud problems (was Re: when using termcap, get it right!) Message-ID: <1395@cullvax.UUCP> Date: Fri, 24-Jul-87 12:21:51 EDT Article-I.D.: cullvax.1395 Posted: Fri Jul 24 12:21:51 1987 Date-Received: Sat, 25-Jul-87 15:01:30 EDT Organization: Cullinet Software, Westwood, MA, USA Lines: 24 ron@topaz.rutgers.edu (Ron Natalie) writes: > A quick summary of RS-232C > > The world is divided into DTE and DCE. DTE is data terminal equipment, > sometimes referred to as the business machine. This includes what we > refer to as terminals as well as the computers. DTE's SHOULD have male > DB-25's on them. DCE is the communications network end. Modems fall into > this category. DCE should correspondingly have the female DB-25 connector. Also, beware of male vs. female DB-25 connectors. I was once confused reading a supply catalog until I figured out that a genuing "male" DB-25 *does* *not* have pins in it! The one with pins is "female". Apparently, it's not the gender of the little pins that counts, but rather the gender of the outermost metal shell around the insulator that separates all the bins/sockets. On a "male", the outermost metal shell is recessed relative to the insulator. Or am I totally confused? Dale -- Dale Worley Cullinet Software ARPA: cullvax!drw@eddie.mit.edu UUCP: ...!seismo!harvard!mit-eddie!cullvax!drw From the Temple of St. Cathode of Vidicon: