At 03:39 PM 3/11/98 -0500, you wrote:
>Thanks for the feedback everyone. I apologize for not making myself clearer.
>I don't know the why behind it, but whoever designed the system I'm working
>with said I have to set the TX bit high. I asked the same question about
>voltages and inverted signal, etc. at the RS-232 end, but the engineer told
>me all that has to be done is to hold the PC port bit high (I guess on the
>UART before the MAX232 or whatever it is). So unfortunately DTR & RTS bits
>won't help, but thanks for the suggestion.
>
>If there is no direct memory mapped address to the TX bit, perhaps I have to
>send a continual stream of bytes=0FFh? Any ideas?
>
>Craig

Sorry, Craig, but sending continuous 0xFF won't do the trick because either
the start bit or the stop bit (I can't remember which) is a low value, to
distinguish it from the other one, which is a high value.

Sean

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