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- From: tommy@superlink.net (Tom Snyder)
- Newsgroups: comp.dcom.modems
- Subject: Re: OS/2 and flow control
- Date: Thu, 14 Mar 1996 15:30:42 GMT
- Organization: SuperNet Inc. (908) 828-8988
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- rcarlos@ix.netcom.com (Ramon Carlos) wrote:
-
- >We have a problem during zmodem downloads from our site to a remote
- >site. We appear to keep resending the 2nd thru nth packets using
- >zmodem IF the destination modem has a relatively slow speed. We've
- >tracked this (with a protocol snooper) to what appears to be buffer
- >overruns between the computer and the modem at our end. Basically:
- >our computer talks to the modem too fast and the modem's buffer gets
- >full. I need a reliable workaround. This phenomemnon only happens
- >with OS/2, not with DOS. But changing OS's at this point is not an
- >option. Not for the near term anyway.
-
- Tells us more about your hardware. What kind of UART is your serial
- port using? Do you have FIFOs enabled if it is a 16550 or better? Are
- you using SIO or the regular OS/2 COM.SYS drivers? How do you have it
- set up in your CONFIG.SYS?
-
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- Tom Snyder
- (No, not the television talkshow host)
- tsnyder@eclipse.net tommy@superlink.net
- -- Every thought's a possibility --
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