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From: greg@bilbo (Greg Wageman)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st
Subject: Re: 9600 baud transfer problems
Summary: XON/XOFF enabled?
Message-ID: <425@snjsn1.SJ.ATE.SLB.COM>
Date: 9 Sep 88 16:31:49 GMT
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Reply-To: greg%sentry@spar.slb.com (Greg Wageman)
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In article <1149@imagine.PAWL.RPI.EDU> dorian () writes:
>I've been trying to transfer files between my ST and the UNIX box it's been
>hardwired to.
>
>It seems that no matter what I  try (any combination of xmodem, kermit, 
>straight capture), I run into problems.  Tried FLASH and AnsiTerm.
>
>The problem is that everything blazes by too fast for my setup at 9600 baud -
>lines are chopped in captures, xmodem & kermit can't seem to get themselves
>syncronized with what's happening on the other end.

Does your *NIX box respond to XON/XOFF (DC1/DC3)?  Flash, for one,
can't keep up with character input at 9600 baud, and will send an XOFF
when the buffer gets nearly full.  If the *NIX box ignores it, the
buffer will overflow and characters will be lost.

Alternatively, you could enable hardware handshaking (Ready-to-send
[RTS]/Clear-to-send [CTS]), but in my own experience these don't work
properly on the Atari side.  You *will* need some sort of handshaking
at 9600 baud, in any event.



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