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Re: DOS voodoo

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Barbara Santorella)
Mon Aug 26 13:19:54 2002

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Date: Mon, 26 Aug 2002 13:16:18 -0400
From: Barbara Santorella <bsantore@MIT.EDU>
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I'm pretty sure the mode command goes like this:
mode com2:=96,n,8,1,p

djbroder@MIT.EDU wrote:
> 
> Twelve years ago I did this, but Lord knows I can't remember how...
> 
> I want to send a string of six or eight hexadecimal numbers out of COM2 (or 1)
> to a device (a projector).
> 
> I do know that the COM statement goes something like this:
>      mode com2: baud=9600 parity=n data=8 stop=1 {xon=none, full duplex}
> (The projector in question wants the above parameters. I do not know what is
> optional and what is required)
> 
> any how I want to pipe the following string to a com port (in hex):
>     02 00 00 00 02
> 
> can anybody point me to a full explanation of the mode command? Or whatever it
> is I need?
> 
> thanks

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Barbara Santorella, MCSE
NT Systems Administrator
MIT, Bates Linac

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