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 mark lewis to Armin Schwarz 
 eCS 1.2 to VPC 2005 Serial Comm 
 03 Sep 10 19:53:12 
 
 AS> I'm trying to communicate from eCS 1.2 (guest) to COM1 on Win XP
 AS> (host) and nothing is going through. I've mapped the eCS virtual
 AS> COM1 to the physical COM1 but can't get any communications going
 AS> (using a serial cable to another PC and running a terminal program,
 AS> eCS has com.sys installed). 

how have you tested if the serial data is actually making it to the physical
serial port? when i run into problems like this, i always use a breakout box
with LEDs on the lines so that i can see what signals the lines have and if
any data does actually come out of the physical serial port...

)\/(ark

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