Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!swrinde!kent
From: kent@swrinde.nde.swri.edu (Kent D. Polk)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Dnet
Keywords: Dnet, Telebit Trailblazer
Message-ID: <25358@swrinde.nde.swri.edu>
Date: 6 Mar 90 21:51:23 GMT
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Organization: Southwest Research Institute, San Antonio, Texas
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I have been running every version of Dnet connected to a Sun 3 until
this last one. I can't get it to start up correctly. I have both a
hardwired connection (9600 at work), and a modem connection (at home).
I have been through several trial sessions from each end, trying every
option that I could think of to no avail. The best I can do is :

1) Direct connect - startup Dnet on the Sun, start an Fterm, the fterm
fails to connect, the Dnet window pops up & quickly disappears, the
fterm attempts again, ....

2) Modem - startup Dnet on the Sun, but the Amiga Dnet window never
disappears.

Both connections are 8 bit, no parity.

I also know of no one else who has been successful in running the newest
Dnet. Has anyone been able to get the latest version of Dnet running? If
so, was it an 8 bit connection and what did you do?

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Also, I have been loaned an Telebit Trailblaser for a while & tried to
run Dnet in the PEP (19200) mode, but severe thrashing between Dnet and
the Trailblazer occurred.  My effective throughput is about 600 baud in
PEP mode (needless to say, I went back to 2400 baud). I have tried
about every combination of setup parameters with Dnet & the
trailblaser, but none work. At first it appeard to be a handshake
problem, with dnet maybe loosing characters when the TB spits out a
burst of chars, but I'm not so sure now.

Anyone gotten Dnet to run in PEP mode with the Trailblazer?

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Last question (Phew): anyone able to get a "draw 8196" to work
consistently? Usually I just get:

%draw 8196
DRAW V1.01 11 March 1988 Connecting
Connected
Amiga CLI   running
                   New Shell process 11
                                       11>

Note the lack of CR's. At this point, everything just hangs. I have an
AmigaDos process running, but can't connect with it, and Dnet is still
running correctly (In fact I am typing this in a fterm, just launched
another fterm, and did the draw 8196 & Snap'ped the info from the other
fterm window). Also note that it works correctly every once in a
while.

Thanks Much,
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Kent Polk - Southwest Research Institute - kent@swrinde.nde.swri.edu
        "Anything worth asking for is worth over asking for"
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