> I wonder what's the maximum working cable length for Slink.
> Do the CAV act as a terminal device? I mean, it can't be
> hooked between
> two slink components surely isn't it?
I seem to remember that the Sony Control A-1 manual recommends cables
shorter than 2 meters. That may not be exactly correct but I do know that
the suggested length was a lot shorter than the distance between my computer
and my CD carousels.
> Hehe... try to copy it. Most are CD-TEXT copy protected; I have
> only two CD-TEXT CDs, Vonda Shepard "Ally MCBeal's" and Bruce
> Springsteen
> "18 Tracks" (this one is a HDCD), both original. None of the two
> could be *text* copied, neither copying the whole disc or one
> track, try
> it. I guess this will happen with almost all...
That's a good point. I forgot that most CD-TEXT CD's are copy-protected. I
could never quite understand why that is either. Why do they protect
information that is freely available on the CD cover?
> Good luck. I guess your main problem won't be guessing SLink
> commands, as they're almost the same that you can obtain with a
> IR-trainer, but the PC-CAV interfacing itself, or is it transparent?
Actually from what I have seen so far (via the port monitor) it is
transparent. All I need to do is send the S-Link commands to the serial
port. There is no special interfacing to the CAV unit.
> Great! :) I'll do that also if I can put my hands over
> a hardware
> device, although they will be mostly command-line perl based
> scripts at
> first (that can run on almost any *nix, Win32 and even Mac or BeOS
> machines if somebody happens to do a port of the
> Device::SerialPort perl
> module).
Cool. I don't know much perl. My libraries would be targeted towards C/C++
developers (maybe I'll even make an automation control for all of the VB
developers out there... if I get really ambitious that is).
Dustin Norman
Software Engineer
NuMega Lab
Compuware Corporation
http://www.compuware.com/numega
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