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From: paul@taniwha.UUCP (Paul Campbell)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.hypercard
Subject: Re: Problems with Apple's Hypercard serial XCMDs
Keywords: Apple, problems,hypercard,xcmd
Message-ID: <381@taniwha.UUCP>
Date: 16 Jun 89 01:18:49 GMT
References: <2416@quanta.eng.ohio-state.edu>
Reply-To: paul@taniwha.UUCP (Paul Campbell)
Organization: Taniwha Systems Design, Oakland
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In article <2416@quanta.eng.ohio-state.edu> czei@quanta.eng.ohio-state.edu (Michael S. Czeiszperger) writes:
>
>1.  Xon/Xoff still does not work on input or output.  I tried an earlier

>3. It strips random characters from incoming data stream.  By this I
>mean that it picks one character every time I boot the computer, and
>deletes every instance of that character from my data stream.
>Sometimes it is the letter "p".  Other times it is the letter "n".
>And still others, the letter "g".  This wreaks havoc on my stacks,
>making it impossible to make them work reliably.

I wonder if the package (or you when you use the package) is setting the
XON/XOFF characters (the MacOS serial driver lets you do this) to some
random value (ie "p", "n" or "g")? Try using the command (whatever it is)
to set these characters to the standard XON/XOFF.

	Paul

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