Just to jump in...I don't know about machines,
but at least one of the
later MAX232 family chips can be configured to do this. It's a
I've seen severail RS232 driver chips which have a logic-level input to
turn off the SC0DC ocnverter and power them down, but Iv'e nto seen one
that is controleld by a signal on one of the RS232 input lines. That
seems like a misfeature to me.
-tony