>> That's fine, but two extra routes on your
>>PC board cost you nothing
>
>On my Wisp628 PCB they would not have been free.

?? surely they would if put on the PCB master?

>> it insures that if there is forced hardware hadshaking,
>
>But exactly who could force this, if it is you
>yourlself who writes the PC software?

The problem I heard is not that the software enforces handshaking, rather
that the port driver in the op sys enforces detecting the return signals to
know that there is a device "out there" to connect to, even when the port is
being requested with no handshake.

And HyperTerminal seems to be the worst bit of software to use to verify
this. I always use the "terminal" program from Windows 3.x - it is a much
saner piece of software.

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