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- Subject: Re: Help getting a new modem
- Message-ID: <H.ea.&SzFEPLnfPs@yonder.equinox.gen.nz>
- From: craig@yonder.equinox.gen.nz (Craig Shore)
- Date: Wed, 23 Dec 1992 22:40:46 +1200
- Reply-To: craig@yonder.equinox.gen.nz
- References: <1992Dec19.202317.1361@cybernet.cse.fau.edu><1h0umsINN2tt@golem.wcc.govt.nz>,
- <1992Dec20.233243.1072865@sue.cc.uregina.ca><1h54tuINNge3@golem.wcc.govt.nz>
- Organization: Equinox Networks (Public access), Node: Yonder
- X-Software: HERMES GUS 1.04 Rev. Sep 5 1992
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- In <1h54tuINNge3@golem.wcc.govt.nz>, steve wells writes:
- >> What is it that the serial patch you mentioned do exactly?
- >>
- >
- >I have no idea! 8-)
- >
- >But, all I do know about it is, you need it on 9600bps, and faster modems
- >on TOS versions before 4.xx (ALL versions except Falcon TOS apparently).
- >
- >It stops bits getting lost when the ST can't keep up with them or some
- >such thing!
-
- It's a bug fix for the RTS/CTS flow control in the computer.
- In the effected versions of TOS, it doesn't work, so you
- need this program. What it's for is so that one computer can tell
- the other one to stop & start sending data...
-
- BTW: Isn't Poolfix for something else??????
-
- the one for the serial port for high speed modems is SERIALFX.PRG
-
- Craig.
-
-
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