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From: lphillips@lpami.wimsey.bc.ca (Larry Phillips)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.tech
Subject: Re: modem drops 0x11
Message-ID: <2408@van-bc.UUCP>
Date: 13 May 89 16:14:43 GMT
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In <431ebd96.15abd@gtephx.UUCP>, carnesm@gtephx.UUCP (Mark E. Carnes) writes:
>I just came across something very perplexing, and I was hoping someone out in 
>net.land might have an idea.  I have been writing a game to be played across
>the modem between two computers.  It works pretty well, except occasionally it
>will get "confused".  I tracked it down and it appears that 0x11 is not being
>transmitted.  I dumped the characters just before I wrote them to the serial
>device, and had the receiving computer dump everything it received.  All the
>characters were transmitted except for 0x11.  I reproduced it several times
>each time when a 0x11 should have been sent it "disappeared".  

Try turning off Xon/Xoff in preferences (or by setting the serial port
parameters. $11 is Xon, $13 is Xoff. If you need Xon/Xoff capability, you can
either 'quote' the characters affected, or change the default Xon/Xoff
characters to something you never send/receive.

-larry

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