At 11:58 AM 9/2/96 RSA, you wrote:

>i'd like to connect a UPS to my PC ....<snip> ....


Now here's a related question:  Do you need to assign an IRQ to the port
that the UPS connection is made to?

I have an APC "Back-UPS 400", which is meant to interface to a serial port's
handshaking pins.   Of course, very few PCs have a functional serial port to
spare, since the only availablr interupts are generally in use by a modem
and a mouse.  I recall that someone at APC telling me that their "Power
Chute" monitoring S/W doesn't need the port's interrupt enabled ... I guess
in such a case the monitor S/W would poll the handshaking pins periodically:
makes sense.

However, at a show earlier this year, I asked the same question to a couple
of techies at an APC booth, and they claimed the IRQ was required.  No
answer when I asked just what you should do if you didn;t have any IRQ's to
spare.

Does anyone have the straight scoop on this?

Many thanks,
....Gregg