DE9 pigtail pinouts

While I'm prepping parts for P112 kits, I started thinking about DE-9 pigtails. These things come in two different pinouts. One of them is pin-1 of the header connects to pin-1 on the DE-9. When wiring up a pigtail like this manually, you cut the ribbon cable into two sections. One sections goes on the top row of the DE-9. The other section goes on the bottom. The other one has the pins interleaved. See http://661.org/p112/files/pigtail.pdf for what I mean. The P112 was designed with the second pinout in mind. When I bought pigtails for my first run of P112s, I managed to get that kind. For subsequent runs, I always got the first kind. Which pinout is more common with actual devices? I ask this because I'm tinkering with an amateur radio project that will eventually use DE-9 pigtails. -- David Griffith dgriffi at cs.csubak.edu A: Because it fouls the order in which people normally read text. Q: Why is top-posting such a bad thing? A: Top-posting. Q: What is the most annoying thing in e-mail?