Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!bonnie.concordia.ca!thunder.mcrcim.mcgill.edu!snorkelwacker.mit.edu!usc!sdd.hp.com!spool.mu.edu!uunet!comp.vuw.ac.nz!actrix!Roger.Sheppard From: Roger.Sheppard@actrix.gen.nz (Roger Sheppard) Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st Subject: Re: RTS/CTS (was Re: set-up for Practical Peripherals 9600 modem?) Message-ID: <1991Jun19.165942.18899@actrix.gen.nz> Date: 19 Jun 91 16:59:42 GMT References: <22357@cbmvax.commodore.com> <2891502@MVB.SAIC.COM> Organization: Actrix Networks Lines: 23 In article <2891502@MVB.SAIC.COM> steveg@cseic.saic.com (Stephen Harold Goldstein) writes: > TOS14FIX.PRG fixes the RTS/CTS problem with TOS 1.4 > I don't believe earlier versions of TOS had this problem. > Quote from TOS14FIX.PRG docs follows: > > "1) A change was made to the BIOS call that sets the RS-232 port > configuration. Specifically, it did not allow RTS/CTS flow control to > be enabled. This is a problem for people with serial printers and high > speed modems, since those devices use RTS/CTS flow control to start and > stop data transmission so that the device can keep up with the > computer. If you have Rainbow TOS, and you use a high-speed serial > device which requires RTS/CTS flow control, you need this program in > your auto folder." > > Stephen Goldstein steveg@cseic.saic.com > My first Atari system? A 24K Atari 800, Rev. A ROMS, C(not G)TIA graphics > Disclaimer: That's not what I said. Some one Stated on here that he was using the Patched Version of the TOS 4 fix, does any know what this meens ?? -- *** Roger W. Sheppard * Roger.Sheppard@bbs.actrix.gen.nz *** *** 85 Donovan Rd * * At least I don't Flicker, not *** *** Kapiti New Zealand.. * like a dying light globe. ! ***