Re: Help fixing "dropped characters" problem using tip.

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From: Marcel Waldvogel
Date: Sat, 11 Apr 1992 10:50

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In article <kgtj7d=.jgrace@netcom.com> jgrace@netcom.com (Joseph Grace) writes:
>I have a Telebit T3000, a NeXT serial cable and a NSColor Turbo.  I am
>using tip to log on at 14400+ BAUD to a remote UNIX computer
>and am losing characters during screen draws and refreshes
>(from the remote computer).  Also, I believe I have the modem
>using CTS/RTS (hardware handshaking), so if my NS is paying attention
>to handshaking, it should never drop characters, right?

Do you open the /dev/cuf[ab] devices? They provide flow control, whereas
the standard /dev/cu[ab] don't.

>Also, if anyone knows how to get tip to pass characters through
>transparently (particularly, ^A and ^P), I would like to know!

I wasn't able to make the stream fully transparent, but my ~/.tiprc
looks like the following, and since then, it transparently sends ^A
and ^P (parity=none has nothing to do with it but is quite nice to have):

raisechar=\377
force=\377
parity=none

-Marcel

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