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- From: magus@drktowr.chi.il.us (Louis Giliberto)
- Newsgroups: comp.os.coherent
- Subject: Re: No more lost packets!!
- Message-ID: <930109117@drktowr.chi.il.us>
- Date: 9 Jan 93 17:59:04 GMT
- References: <9301072777@erato.iowa-city.ia.us>
- Organization: DarkTower Software
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- John D. Boggs (jdb@erato.iowa-city.ia.us) wrote:
- : I went out and dropped way too much money on a serial port with a 16550
- : on board, and mwcbbs doesn't give me lost packets at 9600 baud any more.
- : I'm getting transfer rates of 700-750 Bps, a distinct improvement over
- : the 400 or so I'd been getting at 4800 baud.
-
- Cool! Try cranking it up to 19200 and see what happens.
-
- : So, yes, 16550s seem to solve certain problems (though I still can't
- : download using zmodem at 9600, but I'll talk to someone at the system
- : I'm trying to download from about that).
-
- I think the zmodem port for Coherent is the same brain-damaged one
- that they have for Minix. Half the systems I call (Unix systems)
- won't respond to it at all whether it be z,b, or x protocol.
-
- Speaking of which, anyone who has rebuilt their kernel using the new
- DDK: have you had any problems with minicom? It no longer seems
- to work with the new kernel.
-
- -Louis
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