Sometimes, you need to cross the transmit and receive. It won't do any damage if they are incorrectly crossed.
Alternately, until the DateReady is figured out, poll it and grab what ever is there in the buffer. Also, if you have parity incorrect, or the wrong number of data bits, or the wrong number of stop bits, it can mess things up. Jim On Mar 15, 2007, at 7:31 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Is the serial control working in Win2K, or do I have another problem? > > I have an old laboratory intrument that was meant to send data to a > serial thermal printer. As We have no such printer i figured I could > send the data from that serial printer port to an a Windows box I had > handy, capture it and parse it out into report... > > When i send data from the instrument to the computer the DataAvailable > event of the serial control never fires though I do get CTS line stste > changes... > > The printer port is DB25 and the serial port (COM1) is a DB9. > > The cable I used was one meantt for another serial instrument... The > connecting wire has connectors on the end like for a phone jack so I > connect a modular DB25 on one end and modular DB 25 to ther other > (they came with an Equinox 8 port serial card for another use) > > The Insument is set to > 9600 Baud > 8 Bits > 1 Stop Bit > No parity > No handshake > > And the serial control is set likewise... > > When I press print on the intrument all I see is line change events on > the Clear To Send line > > No I don't have a breakout box... > > Any ideas? > > Thanks, > - Karen > _______________________________________________ > Unsubscribe or switch delivery mode: > <http://www.realsoftware.com/support/listmanager/> > > Search the archives: > <http://support.realsoftware.com/listarchives/lists.html> > _______________________________________________ Unsubscribe or switch delivery mode: <http://www.realsoftware.com/support/listmanager/> Search the archives: <http://support.realsoftware.com/listarchives/lists.html>
