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From: 188622462@excalibur.UUCP (Greene T Richard)
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Subject: "dcom trouble, request for answer from jim hayes"
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Date: Fri, 20-Jun-86 17:35:43 EDT
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Posted: Fri Jun 20 17:35:43 1986
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This is a letter to Jim Hayes (...!wizard!hayes), who I have been unable
to reach through the net mail.  It seems something is wrong with
machine sdcsvax at the moment.

Jim-

I recently managed to download your DCOM 3.21 (I think that's the version)
from the net.  The program seems to be running properly, I have gotten the
cofiguration done without any problem.  The equipement I am running with
is an Apple //e (rev A), Super Serial Card, Apple //e Extended 80 col card,
and a Radio Shack 300 baud modem.  I have to do the dialing, then flip the
"Orig" switch on the modem to connect.  On booting DCOM, the program
takes itself through the loading section (after I hit the return key), then
clears the screen into 80-col mode.  Then I get either of two happenings:

1) There is an error message quickly flashed on the top line just before 
   the screen is cleared.  On using a ctrl-S at the right spot, I saw the
   message was:
      *Serial Init Error*
   The screen would then go blank, and no key except ctrl-RESET would get any
   response, including the open-apple combinations.

2) The screen clears, then the program crashes me into binary, giving me this
   memory dump:
      5955- A=35 X=35 Y=F0 P=34 S=F1
   I think that the Serial Init Error may also appear before this, but I have
   been unsuccessful in catching it, if it exists.

One more piece of hardware info,  I do have some problems with my slots
and card connecting properly.  With my other program (ASCII Express), I have
had to re-boot several times, each time wiggling the card in its slot to 
get a successful connect.

Please, let me know as soon as possible if there is any way of fixing this.
I also have the PATCH.EXEC that was posted, but I don't believe I have used
it as of yet.  I would prefer to try to fix this through mail messages or
whatever, I can't really afford to send to you for the disk at the moment.

Thanks in advance (and sorry for the trouble),

-- 

Rick Greene
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