Mcgee, Mark wrote :

> I'd like to think that the temp controller is a DTE...

You make it easier for you if you think of it as a DCE.

> as it has some intelligence...

And a modem or a printer does not ??
Anyway, that isn't the point.

I think you are making it harder then it is.
Just look at *anything* that connects to a PC as a DCE.
(If it isn't another PC, that is. But that is the rather unusual
0-modem case...)

Jan-Erik.
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