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From: dbilar@antares.UUCP (Dave Bilar)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: Interfacing serial printers to PCs
Summary: I can name that software in 6 bytes
Keywords: XON/XOFF Flow control
Message-ID: <460@antares.UUCP>
Date: 13 Jun 89 00:01:57 GMT
Expires: 30 Aug 89 07:00:00 GMT
References: <3484@i.sei.cmu.edu>
Reply-To: dbilar@antares.UUCP (Dave Bilar)
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Organization: McDonnell Douglas Network Systems Co. (TYMNET), San Jose, CA.
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In article <3484@i.sei.cmu.edu> gjp@sei.cmu.edu (George Pandelios) writes:
>    [ stuff deleted ]
>AUTOEXEC.BAT.  These programs operate by "watching" COM1 for incoming
>characters (XOFF) from the printer.  They tend to be COM files because they
>need to "sit" on a particular memory location. By using one of these programs,
>COM1 and the LQP03 can communicate successfully at 4800 or 9600 baud without
>buffer overrun.
>    [ ... ]
>SUPERSPL  which I believe to be a commercial product.  I was unable to
>discover who makes it, though.  The code works, but I'm taking it off my
>system (unless someone out there points me to the company).
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>  George J. Pandelios			ArpaNet:	gjp@sei.cmu.edu
>  Software Engineering Institute	usenet:		sei!gjp



Hi George...
Sounds like you're referring to SUPERSPL.COM from AST, makers of the
famous Six-Pac Plus and other expansion/io/clock/multifunction cards
for the IBM-pc market.  It came on a disk of utilities that was supplied
with each AST card.  I wouldn't take it off your system though; it works
just fine!

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