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In article <875153893wnr@helikon.demon.co.uk>, "Kevin J. G. Pugh"
<Gwyn@helikon.demon.co.uk> writes

>> There is no windows version of KA9Q. You're running something else, and
>> the experts in demon.ip.support.winsock will happily advise you. Asking
>> here in a DOS oriented group dealing with DIS/KA9Q and Lynx will likely
>> elicit inaccurate and ill-informed replies :(
>
>Point taken, but there are other Windows and WfW groups questions in
> this group.

This is exactly the reason why some people, myself included, think that
it worthwhile being fairly public about redirections. Long ago when
there were fewer Demon users it was possible to have all the questions
asked and answered in a single group. The volume would now be so high
that it would be quite unreadable.

In the last 12 hours for example (and its relatively quiet midweek) in
the demon.* support groups there have been 41 windows related articles,
9 articles here (some off-topic) and 47 in the win95 group. People who
are just interested in keeping KA9Q running don't want to see a 10 fold
increase in traffic discussing things they have no interest in.

Please don't take it personally that your posting was singled out, it is
not worth redirecting every single off-topic question - but equally
because of the risk of misleading lurkers which you highlight, it is
counterproductive to ignore every off-topic article.

>I will make my way over to the relevant group.
>With respect to inaccurate and ill-informed replies, in the end we have 
>to use our own judgement in these matters.

The point I was trying to make is that the experts on Windows software
(by which I don't just mean the programmers of the various bits of
software - though they are there - but ordinary end-users who happen to
understand how something works, or who met just the same problem as you
last week) are reading and writing in the correct groups.

The likelihood is that answers here in the wrong group are either from
the handful of people who know about both sorts of software, or are
posted by neophytes with almost no knowledge (since they're in the wrong
group too!). They may have fixed the problem last week, and they may
tell you the right answer - indeed they often do. But equally they may
tell you something spurious and there is almost no-one else around to
correct them when you're being misled.

My apologies for the length of the explanation, but from time to time it
seems to help to rehearse the arguments for on-topic focussed
newsgroups.

I believe that Demon's documentation is not entirely blameless in these
matters... Malcolm is looking into whether new joiners are *still* told
to come here if they own a PC... which is not entirely correct advice.

>> >Comm errors [OVERRUN] = 3
>
>> These are overruns at the serial chip level. Buy a 16550A and get the
>> FIFOs within it turned on.
>
>For the record, it is a ROCKWELL RC288DPi chip, the buffering is on,
>as is the RTS/CTS hardware flow control - the problem remains!

You will need expert help then! Tell them what comm.drv you are using,
what is relevant in the [386Enh] section and some info about your video
(S3s are suspect) and what sort of disk drivers you have.

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