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From: martin@suna8.cs.uiuc.edu
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: NetBios problems with a token ring
Message-ID: <36200003@suna8>
Date: 3 Feb 90 17:40:06 GMT
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Nf-From: suna8.cs.uiuc.edu!martin    Feb  2 16:56:00 1990



    Hello all,

	Currently I am working on a Face-to-Face/Computer- Mediated 
    communication experiment for another's dissertation.  It involves
    four people solving an inductive-learning problem with the 
    communication either by talking, or typing to each other on 
    different terminals.
	I'm using sessions in a token-ring environment to implement the
    computer-mediated part of the experiment; They are arranged so each
    session will only send/receive information in one direction, for 
    simplicity's sake.  My problem is that if I send messages very quickly,
    the communication hangs on all four stations.  The messages can be a 
    single character, but the mass of messages will still cause the 
    communications to halt.  I have played with send/receive timeouts
    in many different configurations, to no avail.  I have even made
    my program ack messages back, and hang on a send until an ack message
    has been received, but the problem goes away.  This suggests to me
    that it may not be a timeout problem at all, which baffles me.
	Please, if you have had experience with this before, and have an
    answer or work-around, please, PLEASE, let me know!  This program must
    work soon for this lady to collect data in time for her dissertation.

					Thanks in advance,
					- Rocco Martin