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Xref: sserve comp.unix.bsd:14449 comp.os.linux.development:12535 Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!msuinfo!agate!howland.reston.ans.net!vixen.cso.uiuc.edu!sdd.hp.com!col.hp.com!csn!news.sinet.slb.com!news From: michael@starbase.neosoft.com Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd,comp.os.linux.development Subject: Re: APC UPS owners or potential buyers, trying to show user base Date: Sun, 31 Jul 94 00:02:45 PDT Organization: Schlumberger SINet, Sedalia, CO Lines: 15 Message-ID: <31ffcm$9l6@sndsu1.sinet.slb.com> References: <CtpoIA.JJH@newsserver.aggregate.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: sugar-land-2-pp13.access.sinet.slb.com Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII X-Newsreader: NEWTNews & Chameleon -- TCP/IP for MS Windows from NetManage In article <CtpoIA.JJH@newsserver.aggregate.com>, > The Smart-UPS's use some sort of dongle RS232 cable if I remember > correctly, i.e. it's not a normal RS232 cable since it has extra > components in it. Once you have one of those cables its some sort > of 1 or 2 letter commands sort of thing to get info out of the > UPS. Even if the pinouts are radically different from RS232 - making a new cable is a trivial task -- you don't have to pay the vendor if you can roll your own. The cable (as well as I can remember) has either a 9 or 25 pin connector on the computer side, and probably a 9 pin on the UPS end. This means that a cable with at least 9 elements should do...