Needed: comms pgm which can coexist with PGA display

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From: Henry Mensch
Date: Fri, 21 Sep 1990 05:20

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for reasons entirely beyond my control, i find myself using a
gen-yoo-ine IBM PC/AT (running DOS 3.1) with a PGA ("Professional
Graphics Display").  there's a standard serial port into which i've
plugged a standard Hayes Smartmodem 2400 baud ... and i find that 2400
baud is really quite unusable (every 3rd-4th character seems to be
dropped at that speed) and at 1200 baud this condition occurs
sporadically.

i'm told that this is due to an interaction between the serial port
and the PGA ... and that some comms programs do the right thing wrt
this issue (i'm using MS-DOS Kermit 3.*, and this problem occurs with
an ancient version of pckermit (ver 1.1-ish) too).  

clues would be welcome.

cheers,
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