On Mon, 29 Nov 2004 09:46:00 -0800, William "Chops" Westfield wrote:

<snip>
>
>All cables should be male to female, straight through.
>
>All necessary sex or DCE changes should be done with adaptors that
>are obviously different from cables...
>
>I like Olin's "assume it plugs directly into the back of a PC, but
>perhaps someone would like to add a cable."  That's how I look at it 
>too.
>

I agree. Doing that also results in a female connector on the external
unit. This can prevent a great number of warranty returns for bent
pins, especially for field (aka abused) equipment.


Regards, Bob

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