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From: mathew@mantis.co.uk (mathew)
Newsgroups: comp.mail.uucp
Subject: Re: Getting MS-DOS to poll in backgroun (was FSUUCP execution)
Message-ID: <qH9wX6w163w@mantis.co.uk>
Date: 25 Feb 91 11:01:49 GMT
References: <59595@aurs01.UUCP>
Organization: Mantis Consultants, Cambridge. UK.
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throop@aurs01.UUCP (Wayne Throop) writes:
> Using Desqview and UUPC on a lowly 8088 laptop I can run
> connections at 9600 bps in the background.  I presume it could
> go faster, but I haven't bothered for uucp connections.

The critical thing is how good the serial port is on the PC concerned.
Laptops tend to have quite good serial ports, because they are designed to be
used a lot. Most people with desktop PCs don't use the RS232C, and so lots of
clones have serial hardware and BIOS routines which are dodgy to say the
least.

We run a 9600 connection, and found that in order to get it running reliably
on the appropriate machine we had to use a FOSSIL driver.


mathew.