From: kankkune@klaava.Helsinki.FI (Risto Kankkunen) Subject: Re: ZMODEM hiccups starting at pl10 Date: 14 Aug 1993 03:23:30 +0300
I have not encountered any errors with zmodem, but noticed another odd
thing. I use 2400bps internal modem with pl10 and it works nicely, in
general. However, after uploading (and maybe downloading, too, I'm not
sure) the serial line becomes jumpy. When I'm back in my kermit session,
text from the remote host appears in chunks of about 128(?) characters,
a bit like on a slow compressed line. Everything still works, no
characters are lost, but it sure is a bit annoying and probably
indicates a bug in somewhere.
I have also noticed that fast spurious character burst (e.g. lifting the
phone accidentally off the hook while the modem is in use) often lock
the serial line completely. Kermit just hangs when trying to access it.
Rebooting the machine fixes that (while not affecting the modem) so the
problem is surely in the device driver.
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