From: don on
yea your right

unless the device your connecting to is not working

Paul has the answer in his posting

or you can just loop back the Txd to the Rxd of one port at a time (turn off
handshaking)

"kony" <spam(a)spam.com> wrote in message
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> On 28 Feb 2006 16:03:04 -0800, "Srikanth" <skt(a)xdtech.com>
> wrote:
>
> >Hi
> >Thanks, I think the com port is the two slots at the top left - the
> >white/black connectors adjacent to each other.
> >
> >Is there a simple test for me to figure out whether the port is
> >working?
> >
> >Thanks
> >Srikanth.
>
> I would think the simple test will be connecting that device
> you need to use... and using it.
>