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From: andreww@uniwa.uwa.oz (Andrew John Williams)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.cbm
Subject: rs232 problems (C64)
Summary: What's going wrong?
Keywords: c64 rs232
Message-ID: <1991May22.113859.17596@uniwa.uwa.oz>
Date: 22 May 91 11:38:59 GMT
Organization: University of Western Australia
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We've just built ourselves a little rs232 interface for the C64 (we want
to do some transfers to/from our BBS). The hardware seems to be fine. We
can send characters from the 64 to the remote terminal, but anything
sent by the terminal just doesn't turn up.
Well it does, in a way. If we bash the program to display bit 0 of $DD01
(the rs232 data recieved bit) it is quite clear that characters are
making it in. But then they get lost. The program we're using looks like
this:
10 open2,2,0,chr$(38)+chr$(192)
20 get#2,a$
30 get#2,a$:getb$:printa$:ifb$<>""thenprint#2,b$
40 goto30

can anyone help?

John West (stealing Andrew's account)
I'd rather have a box of fish than a son like that