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Re: serial port for ZF-151 (CLARIFICATION)

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From: RFM
Date: Wed, 28 Oct 1992 03:47
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In article <1992Oct27.103755.44180@kuhub.cc.ukans.edu>,
arritt@kuhub.cc.ukans.edu says:
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>Our technician now says the problem is not with communications per se.
>He got together with our system manager and they found out that
>the system is actually able to log on to a remote computer, but nothing
>that is typed shows up on the screen.  So installing another serial
>port as COM2 (as several people have suggested) doesn't really get at
>the problem.
>
>The problem isn't strictly with the video, either, because other
>programs run fine.  There's something weird going on with the way that
>the comm port and video interact with one another.
>
>We're stumped ...  any ideas?

Could it be a software problem? Half-duplex vs. full-duplex comm
protocol?

-- May be a dumb suggestion/query, but I've done dumber!

BobM, PSU-Harrisburg
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