Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!lll-winken!lll-tis!helios.ee.lbl.gov!pasteur!ucbvax!EDWARDS-2060.ARPA!D-ROGERS From: D-ROGERS@EDWARDS-2060.ARPA Newsgroups: comp.os.cpm Subject: Kaypro and Spinwriter 7710 Message-ID: <12412216898.11.D-ROGERS@EDWARDS-2060.ARPA> Date: 6 Jul 88 20:23:48 GMT Sender: daemon@ucbvax.BERKELEY.EDU Organization: The Internet Lines: 12 I received no reply on this before and i still need help. I have a friend with a Kaypro 4 and an NEC 7710 Spinwriter. They don't seem to talk to each other. I've tried simple things like PIPing a text file to various ports, e.g. LST:, PRN:, PUN:, AUX: in every case the system hangs, as though waiting for a DTR. The printer self tests OK and both units are set to run at 1200 baud, 8 bits, no parity. I don't even get garbage. The NEC has a DB25 connector; that with the baud and parity switches makes me believe it uses a serial interface. Is there something else i need to know to get the Kaypro to dump a character stream? It also has a parallel port, but the software didn't have any procedures to reassign any logical devices. H E L P ! [dale] -------