i needed to use a terminal program other the hyperterminal (which seemed to simply ignore my input -- i am sure i am missing some cryptic setting, but i just went ahead and used another terminal program.) Hyperterminal works fine with the following settings: 115k, 8-N-1, Xon/Xoff handshaking This is under the Win2000 version - YMMV.

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David
// I'm probably not speaking on behalf of empeg/SONICblue here...