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Article #7586Re: Dropped characters in Win. Comm programs at 19200 baud
From: Kai-Uwe Rommel
Date: Fri, 14 Dec 1990 14:55
Date: Fri, 14 Dec 1990 14:55
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In article <1990Dec13.062051.3478@amd.com> indra@brahms.amd.com (Indra Singhal) writes: >I have used Terminal, WinQVT, UniCOM and Microphone II. They all drop >single characters randomly. Outside Windows, Qmodem 4.2b never drops any >characters. This is a problem of the COMM.DRV driver shipped with windows. >Have others seen such consistent bad behavior? Anyone worked it out? >Workarounds? Anyone? Wrote my own device driver (not a windows one, but a DOS TSR which is called via INT 2F by my appliation(s)). MS has to fix this. Kai Uwe Rommel -- /* Kai Uwe Rommel, Munich ----- rommel@lan.informatik.tu-muenchen.dbp.de */ DOS ... is still a real mode only non-reentrant interrupt handler, and always will be. -Russell Williams (MS)
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rutgers!usc!sdd.hp.com!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!sol.ctr.columbia.edu!ira.uka.de!fauern!lan!rommel From: rommel@lan.informatik.tu-muenchen.dbp.de (Kai-Uwe Rommel) Newsgroups: comp.windows.ms Subject: Re: Dropped characters in Win. Comm programs at 19200 baud Message-ID: <6076@tuminfo1.lan.informatik.tu-muenchen.dbp.de> Date: 14 Dec 90 14:55:04 GMT References: <1990Dec13.062051.3478@amd.com> Sender: news@lan.informatik.tu-muenchen.dbp.de Reply-To: rommel@lan.informatik.tu-muenchen.dbp.de (Kai-Uwe Rommel) Organization: Inst. fuer Informatik, TU Muenchen, Germany Lines: 21