Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!lll-winken!lll-tis!helios.ee.lbl.gov!nosc!ucsd!rutgers!gatech!udel!mmdf From: TAMURA%HLERUL5.BITNET@cunyvm.cuny.edu Newsgroups: comp.os.minix Subject: IBM PC AT RS232C default settings Message-ID: <3227@louie.udel.EDU> Date: 7 Jul 88 10:23:45 GMT Sender: mmdf@udel.EDU Lines: 29 The default settings of the RS232 port are indeed not in the documentation, not even in your BIOS listing. Last year, working for the European branch of a big firm, I needed the info, to find out what the best default setting of a printer should be. We called an IBM dealer, the dealer called IBM. It took two days to get a reply. ( the first day they said to look in the hardware TRM BIOS listing ) They finally understood that I wanted to know the DEFAULT settings of the RS232 port under MSDOS. The information, for PC AT ( I was using a clone ) proved accurate ! It took me some time to find that note, but here it is : DEFAULT SETTINGS RS232C port IBM PC AT -------------------------------------- 2400 baud 8 data bits 1 stop bit no parity Tamura Jolink+------------------------------------+ | "2 C | ! 2 C == ?" | | /* free after W. Shakespeare */ | +------------------------------------+ INTERNET : TAMURA@HLERUL5.BITNET