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From: cramer@kontron.UUCP
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Subject: Re: Can you Copy to COMn: in DOS/ How to ready COMn: in DOS.
Message-ID: <1152@kontron.UUCP>
Date: Wed, 22-Oct-86 13:09:32 EDT
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Posted: Wed Oct 22 13:09:32 1986
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>   For a large number of applications, I've always wanted to be able
> to do something like...
>     
>             mode com1:9600,e,1,... etc.
>             copy script.fil com1:
> 
>   But, alas, I get a device not ready error. Anyone have any ideas/or 
> suggestions.
>            
> 		Doug Snow, Arts Computing Office

The problem is the device attached to your serial port.  I'm able to
do the operation you describe above, but remember that the PC-DOS
serial driver doesn't support XON/XOFF, so an XON/XOFF device will
have buffer overrun problems.  I'm not terribly knowledgeable with
the various hardware flow control schemes -- how the device attached 
to COM1 is doing flow control maybe the source of the "device not ready"
error.

Clayton E. Cramer