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Re: can't connect via serial cable

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From: Ashley Dunn
Date: Mon, 03 Mar 1997 00:00
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have you tried connecting via null modem cable? Null modem is the same as a
serial cable except that a few pins are switched so that two computers can
communicate with each other. At least I think this is what a null modem
cable is. Call you local computer store and see if they carry the cable. 

Smitty <jtj...@prodigy.com> wrote in article
<331A38...@prodigy.com>...
> We both have the full version cd-rom's and it still won't connect. 
> Thanks for the suggestion, thought.
> 
> Smitty
> 
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From: "Ashley Dunn" <asd...@nytimes.com>
Subject: Re: can't connect via serial cable
Date: 1997/03/03
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