Originally Posted by
Larry Myers
Unfortunately the Fanuc manual is the worst ever written.
Fanuc manuals, written convoluted? I find that hard to believe
Do you have the Fanuc maintenance manual?
It shows the screen to go to set up your RS232 parameters.
I would use a 3 wire cable with the handshake jumpered out, there are many previous diagrams here for this.
You want to set the EIA/ISO to ISO for ASCII files.
Set for software handshake.
If you can get a copy of Terminal that came with the old Win3.1, it is way better to use for this than Hyperterminal, which is a bit crippled.
Al.
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