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- From: rdippold@cancun.qualcomm.com (Ron Dippold)
- Subject: Re: backgound file transfers
- Message-ID: <rdippold.714278561@cancun>
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- Organization: Qualcomm, Inc., San Diego, CA
- References: <714265709.0@davespc.mi.org>
- Date: Thu, 20 Aug 1992 02:42:41 GMT
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- Dave.Beaujean@davespc.mi.org (Dave Beaujean) writes:
- >Has anyone been able to successfully transfer files
- >in the background while working in another window. I
- >cannot get procomm for windows to work!!! It works
- >fine until I alt-tab to another window, then I get
- >errors (CRC, UART Overflow, etc.). When I change back
-
- What UART chip are you using? If it's a 8250 or 16450, you may be
- able to fix your problem by replacing it with a 16550 chip. To be
- charitable, Windows' performance under the standard communications
- drivers is... lacking. This is not an uncommon problem.
-
- I suspect that what is happening is that whatever you're doing in the
- foreground is eating up enough time that PW can't respond to the
- interrupts and empty the character buffer fast enough.
-
-
- >I may not get it to work at all. I am told (by one
- >Microsoft technician) that he does the transfer with Telix
- >and Procomm all the time with no trouble. I have tried
-
- Boy, that was helpful of him.
-
-
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