Use something like B&B's RS485-RS232 converters.

Or take a DS275 and an LTC1485 and a perf board - it's cheap and easy.

Howard


At 01:36 PM 3/12/2003 -0800, you wrote:
>Does anybody know an easy and cheap way to use a PC Serial port, which is
>RS-232, to listen only to data comming from a RS-485 device?  I don't need
>to send data back, only recieve.
>thanks
>
>    -Dan
>
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Howard McGinnis
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