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From: jprad@faatcrl.UUCP (Jack Radigan)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.datacomm
Subject: Re: XON/XOFF flow control (was re: 19200 baud amiga)
Message-ID: <1051@faatcrl.UUCP>
Date: 4 Mar 91 13:35:52 GMT
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gandrews@netcom.COM (Greg Andrews) writes:

>Then something's wrong with the buffering used by the communications
>programs, or with the threshold where the receiver cries "stop!".
>XON/XOFF flow control itself shouldn't cause dropped characters,
>the comm programs aren't handling it right.

  The Amiga serial.device does the XON/XOFF handshake in this case, not the
comm program.  Like I said, at slow baud rates XON/XOFF is fine.  At higher
rates a few characters get lost.  It needs to do some scaling to alter the
trigger count down proportionally to the baud rate in use.

  -jack-