If you REALLY want a simple 232 driver, go for the MAX233.  No external
components!

Clyde Smith-Stubbs wrote:
>
> Thus spake Ed Todd (edtodd@SNI.NET):
>

> Correct, and this is normally done by the RS232 driver chip. IF you check out
> a MAX232 (or the older 1488 and 1489 parts) you will find that all the drivers

> TTL levels in and out. You have to do the inversion yourself (but consider
 using
> a MAX202 anyway - it's simpler and better, and not very expensive).
>