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- Path: sparky!uunet!mcsun!uknet!siesoft!shark!tomc
- From: tomc@siesoft.co.uk (Tom Crossland)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.acorn
- Subject: Re: ARcterm7 and KA9Q
- Message-ID: <1992Sep8.124530.857@siesoft.co.uk>
- Date: 8 Sep 92 12:45:30 GMT
- References: <9209080827.AA01888@ucbvax.Berkeley.EDU>
- Sender: news@siesoft.co.uk (Usenet News)
- Reply-To: tomc@siesoft.co.uk
- Organization: Siemens Nixdorf Information Systems Ltd.
- Lines: 18
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- nicho@VNET.IBM.COM writes:
- :
- : Subject says it. Has anyone managed to get these 2 programs to
- : coexist peacefully ?? I'm trying to use Arcterm7 to dial my
- : Internet gate, and then switch into KA9Q to run the SLIP session.
- : It would appear at first glance that Arcterm7 doesn't approve of
- : other comms programs running alongside it. Can anyone comment on
- : this plz ?
-
- I would guess it's because they both want access to the serial port
- simultaneously, so when KA9Q pulls some data from the serial input
- buffer, ArcTerm can't see it, and visa versa.
-
- Solution: ??? Perhaps there's a way of having two serial input
- buffers simultaneously, so when data is recieved it is copied into
- both. Sounds a bit dodgy to me.
-
- Tom.
-