Date : Sun, 29 Jul 2007 23:42:51 +0100
From : dominic@... (Dominic Beesley)
Subject: Comms software
Hi Francis,
Any chance you could forward me Dave's email address, I'd love to get in
touch with him, send him the cash and get the full version!
Cheers
Dom
----- Original Message -----
From: "Francis Devereux" <francis@...>
To: <bbc-micro@...>
Sent: Sunday, July 29, 2007 7:45 PM
Subject: Re: [BBC-Micro] Comms software
> On Sunday 29 July 2007 17:13, Dominic Beesley wrote:
>> Hi all,
>>
>> I'm fairly sure the serial buffering works ok, my BASIC serial link test
>> program at (oh pants my website has been eaten by demon well the basic
>> program that was there) didn't lose any incoming data, the MOS asserted
>> the
>> hardware control in plenty of time and not a byte was lost.
>>
>> I did do some "improved" (hacked) buffering code to try and get better
>> performance when I was doing my Contiki port. It sort of worked for a
>> while
>> then went crazy for a bit.
>>
>> I think Tequila must do its own buffering as the standard MOS code seemed
>> to be a bit buggy IIRC
>>
>> I agree however that 19200 cannot be sustained although in Tequila it
>> is a fair bit quicker doing XModem at 19.2 than at 9.6 again ultra
>> reliable
>> at 19.2 on a longish (50') cable with no shielding or special buffering
>> for
>> RS232->RS432.
>>
>> I'd dearly love to find a full version of Tequila or Dave Sainty or
>> another
>> better terminal program (the free version has a ***king annoying delay at
>> startup and misses out on Y/Z Modem).
>
> I emailed David Sainty a while ago and he kindly sent me the full version
> of
> TequilaComm. However, he asked me not to release it because it had a
> problem
> with the help system. Apart from that it works very well, although 19200
> baud does not work reliably for me - it tends to hang. Since 9600 is fast
> enough for me when doing terminal emulation (for large file transfers I
> use a
> GoMMC) I have not tried very hard to get 19200 to work.
>
> Francis
>
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