>Roy J. Gromlich - PA wrote:
>> That is correct - Hyperterminal does its own serial port configuration
>> during initialization

And Olin replied

>This doesn't agree with my experience.  I have used Hyperterm
>many times to talk to simple devices that use only RX, TX, and
>GND without any handshaking loopback.  Hyperterm definitely
>does not send anything to the device on startup, only when a key
>is pressed.

It does not send a character on the TX line, but it does play with the
DTR/DSR lines to detect if there is a device it can talk to.


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