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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: <1992Sep8.172925.4037@siesoft.co.uk>
- Date: 8 Sep 92 17:29:25 GMT
- References: <9209081335.AA08800@ucbvax.Berkeley.EDU>
- Sender: news@siesoft.co.uk (Usenet News)
- Reply-To: tomc@siesoft.co.uk
- Organization: Siemens Nixdorf Information Systems Ltd.
- Lines: 12
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- nicho@VNET.IBM.COM writes:
- : In <1992Sep8.124530.857@siesoft.co.uk> Tom Crossland writes:
- : >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.
- : I'd buy this, except that a combination of KA9Q and GrapeVine
- : works perfectly. I'm desperately looking for a solution, otherwise
- : I'm going to have to send Arcterm7 back. I can live without BBS access,
- : I can't live without Internet :-)
-
- The difference is Grapevine doesn't multi-task while accesing the serial
- port (to my recollection).
-