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- From: tom@mars (Tom Minchin)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.datacomm
- Subject: Re: xprZmodem.library problems
- Date: 8 Jan 1993 05:06:40 GMT
- Organization: Australian National University
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- Daniel Barrett (barrett@astro.cs.umass.edu) wrote:
- : >>In article <C0HIuH.534@news.udel.edu> don@chopin.udel.edu (Donald R Lloyd)
- : >>[in c.s.a.advocacy] writes:
- : >-> My big problem with Term is that it uses XPRZModem.library, which seems
- : >->to start getting error messages at the slightest sign of another running
- : >->task...
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- : >barrett@astro.cs.umass.edu (Daniel Barrett) writes:
- : >> I have noticed this too, but I had not realized that
- : >>xprZmodem.library might be the cause. I use xprZmodem.library with VLT
- : >>5.576. Has anyone gotten around this problem?
- : In article <1993Jan8.015002.15180@news.uiowa.edu> mtpins@icaen.uiowa.edu (Michael T Pins) writes:
- : >Using VLTjr Version 5.576 and xprzmodem.library version 2.51, I have yet to
- : >see a problem on my A3000 w/ a PPI 9600SA modem....
- : Several other people have written to me, saying they don't have
- : any such problems with xprZmodem.library and VLT. So, I suppose my problems
- : have another source. It just seems to me that I get more downloading errors
- : during heavy disk activity... including timeouts. Hmph.
-
- I see that the two previous followupees (!) both use A3000s. Because of the
- wimpy serial port the Amiga is _stuck_ with it is quite easy to over run the
- buffer at 9600 baud. Standard 68000 Amigas will be rather strained if you
- say download at 9600 baud and LHa at the same time, so having a nice '030
- 32bit system would help I guess.
-
- Tom
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