Date   : Tue, 24 Jul 2007 00:12:23 +0100
From   : dominic@... (Dominic Beesley)
Subject: Comms software

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Jonathan Graham Harston" <jgh@...>
To: <bbc-micro@...>
Sent: Monday, July 23, 2007 4:34 PM
Subject: Re: [BBC-Micro] Comms software


> >Message-ID: <06dc01c7cc93$92bd8060$6602a8c0@...>
> 
> "Dominic Beesley" <dominic@...> wrote:
>> I've just run a nice long rs423 cable from my linux box to my Master in
>> the cellar, internet in the workshop!
> 
> I hope it's not knee-deep in water ;)
> 

Thanks, its mostly dried out now!

>> Is there anything available that will go at a decent speed (my serial
>> cable quite nicely supports 19200/19200 but is limited by the speed of
>> the software) that will display vt100 nicely with full PC ansi character
>> set?
> 
> Yep. My XTerm at http://mdfs.net/Software/Comms/JGH
> 

Thanks Jonathan, 

Looks good!

Do you have any objection to me having a play around with this (I'll send
you any updates). It looks good but I'd like to add:

- Harware flow control option, it doesn't quite keep up at 19200 (might 
  not be worth much for writing to screen but makes a differnce for file 
  transfers)
- Options to change the Parity, Stop bits etc
- Turbo option - I'll have to have a dig around I made some quite quick
  serial handling code when I messed about with Contiki a while ago.

Cheers

Dom