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Subject: Re: HandShake 2.20c DOES work with xprzmodem
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Date: 8 Mar 91 14:59:28 GMT
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In article <1991Mar5.192516.19358@watdragon.waterloo.edu>
"stephan(" <sbmueller@rose.uwaterloo.ca>, ")"@ee.udel.edu writes:

>>...HandShake 2.20c...using the xprzmodem.library "2.0 (28 Oct 1989)" and
>>it works just fine ... in fact, VERY impressively.

>Sometimes.  When it works, it works extremely well!  When it doesn't,
>the lockup is immediate, and the guru persistent.

>Handshake 2.20c locks up for me at two specific times:
>- when attempting to dial (using the dialer menu, not by manually
>typing ATDT etc.)

Ditto.  The random guru comes up indicating an address error 00000003.

>- when attempting to download (this has happened with external
>protocols as well as the builtin Kermit text, for instance)

>The lockup happens as soon as the appropriate window appears and
>text is spewed to it.  If I get the first 256 bytes of a download,
>it will finish.  If dialing starts it will finish.

>Whether or not it works is independent of anything I've noticed.
>Some days it does, some days it doesn't.

Ditto.
Morover, I am seeing a difference between xprzmodem.library 2.0 and 2.1.
2.0, which works 9/10 times, works fine.  2.1, however, proceeds with
*very* frequent errors and retries, significantly slowing down the
throughput rate.

I'm running Handshake 2.20c, on a B2000, with 3 Megs, 2 floppies, KS 34.5,
WB 34.28 (1.3.2), nothing else fancy.  The ENV: variables are in place.

>stephan("A cop is a walking zoo, with a gun");


Norman Iscove   iscove@utoroci.bitnet