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From: jetzer@studsys.mu.edu (jetzer)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple
Subject: Re: Kermit 3.82, Super Serial Card and Serial Pro Card
Message-ID: <157@studsys.mu.edu>
Date: 23 Apr 88 20:18:22 GMT
References: <8804231402.aa18500@SMOKE.BRL.ARPA>
Organization: Marquette University - Milwaukee, Wisconsin
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Summary: Interrupts ...

In article <8804231402.aa18500@SMOKE.BRL.ARPA>, SEWALL@UCONNVM.BITNET (Murph Sewall) writes:
>>I have an Applied Engineering Serial Pro that I use for telecommunications (as
>>opposed for printing).  The card works well with Apple Access, DCOM3.3 but not
>>very well Kermit 3.75 - 3.82.

>>The Serial Pro is ostensibly a Super Serial clone and should work with
>>Kermit's SSC driver.  It doesn't, so I use the Versatec driver.  It is
>>described as a SSC driver without interrupts.  It works poorly.  The only
>>thing Kermit can be used for with the Serial Pro is file transfer.  Full
>>screen editing at 1200 baud is hopeless.  Too many characters are lost.  I use
>>Apple Access a lot, DCOM 3.3 when I want a VT100 emulation and Kermit for file
>>transfer.

I also have a Serial Pro, but use if for printing.  The manual says that
by closing dip switches 1 and 2, you will enable interrupts from the ACIA
chip.  Have you tried this?  (this seems painfully obvious, but this ought
to solve your problem, I think).

On another note, the Serial Pro is not quite an exact replacement for the
SSC, since some graphics print programs (actually, it seems all Broderbund
programs, and no other ones that I've run across) require you to access
the control panel and disable linefeeds before printing graphics.  Otherwise
the graphics are printed with blank lines between lines of graphics.

Other programs (ImageWriter toolkit, Triple Dump) seem to work just fine
without changing the control panel.  Anyone know a fix for this?
-- 
Mike Jetzer
"Hack first, ask questions later."