On 11 Jul 2009 18:32:30 GMT, Andrew Gabriel wrote:

The other way to do this is to force DTR and RTS to known states,
and then use them to power a low-power device, and I've done this
a few times.

Yep so have I and got confused when said device doesn't work 'cause
the associated software wasn't controling the lines as expected...

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Cheers
Dave.