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From: njd@ihlpm.ATT.COM (DiMasi)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.8bit
Subject: OmniCom at 2400 bps?
Keywords: OmniCom, OMNIVIEW, 2400
Message-ID: <3109@ihlpm.ATT.COM>
Date: 28 Feb 89 19:37:57 GMT
Organization: AT&T Bell Laboratories - Naperville, Illinois
Lines: 38

I have a question  for  users   of   the   OmniCom   80-column   VT100
terminal  emulator.   (I  know  that there are some of you out there!)
Anyone who knows how to set up an 850 for different RS-232 speeds  may
be able to help, too.

I have been using OmniCom for several years now, and recently acquired
the  standalone  ("shareware") version.  I want to "upgrade" to a 2400
bps modem, but _will OmniCom work at 2400  bps?_   The   documentation
says  that  the program  may have trouble handling continuous incoming
characters at _1200_  bps,  if  there  are  no  pauses  (say,  between
"screenfuls"  of  lines),  under some  conditions.  (It also says that
OmniCom will use ^S (X-OFF) / ^Q (X-ON)  flow  control  to  keep  from
losing   characters.    Of   course,  if  the  host computer takes too
long to respond to  ^S,  characters  will  be  lost.)   I  have  never
experienced  a problem like this at 1200 bps.  Also, I seem to  recall
David  Young  (CDY) saying (a year or  two  ago?  sometime  before  he
"retired," anyway)  that  he  had  been working on improving OmniCom's
speed, even to handle 2400 bps.

If it will work  at  2400   bps   (even   with   possible   occasional
loss   of  characters,   but   I   would hope that file transfer, i.e.
Xmodem and Kermit, work OK), does anyone know what to set the 850  I/O
parameters  (or   whatever they're  called) for 2400 bps?  OmniCom has
no speed setting for 2400, only  300,  1200,  or  "custom"  for  user-
specified  I/O  control   parameters  for  the 850.   I  imagine  that
any program that sets up an 850 for 2400 bps would  have  to  use  the
same (or similar) values.....

I want to know if 2400 bps will work before I spend money  on  a  2400
bps modem (I suppose I could try to borrow one, but I still would like
to know if there is any hope of success.)

Thanks in advance for any help or information.

Nick DiMasi       njd@ihlpm.ATT.COM    ...att!ihlpm!njd    DELPHI: TURBONICK
Uni'q Digital Technologies (Fox Valley Software subsidiary;
   ^          working as a contractor at AT&T Bell Labs in Naperville, IL)
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