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- Newsgroups: comp.unix.sysv386
- Path: sparky!uunet!rei2!rick
- From: rick@rei2.uucp (Richard J. Barton)
- Subject: Re: Comm problems (Sys V R4)
- Message-ID: <1992Jul30.153104.13146@rei2.uucp>
- Date: Thu, 30 Jul 1992 15:31:04 GMT
- References: <1992Jul29.210705.27986@u.washington.edu>
- Organization: REI
- Lines: 24
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- mpark@milton.u.washington.edu (Michael Park) writes:
-
- >(Posting for a friend, who says):
-
- >I can't seem to get the serial port set up properly. It looks like
- >the OS is one character late. Example: Type in "date" and you see
- >"dat". Hit CR and the "e" shows up. Another character is needed
- >before you get output. Needless-to-say, this makes for an
- >aggravating interface, especially when logging in. I blame the OS
- >because the serial port works fine under DOS and SCO Sys V.
-
- >Anyone got any ideas or tips for further diagnostic research?
-
- I had problems with uucp with my port set at 38400 and it was
- having problems, then stepped down to 19200, and it works just
- fine. Telebit pointed out that some serial cards may have
- buffering/flow control problems at too high speed. This may
- or may not be your problem, but I thought it would be useful
- information just the same.
-
- --
- rick
- :-)
- rick@rei.com [Plexus Software, A Division of Recognition Equipment Inc.]
-