salem@sri-unix.ARPA (Bruce B. Salem) (01/22/87)
I have an Apple II+ with a Viewmax-80 80-column board in slot 3, and a Super Serial Card clone in slot 4. I have a version of Kermit to talk over the SSC in communications mode to a Ven Tel 1200EC modem. I have the following symptom: When I talk to the configuration program in rom in the modem the first and thrid characters of its output are dropped as they are when communicating over the phone line at 1200 baud to a local host. I asked an Apple dealer about this and he said that I had to send more nulls to the modem to get the timing right. I can find no mode in the SSC that controls number of nulls sent down the line. I have checked the dip switch settings and they seem correct. Does anyone recognize the problem I'm having? Do I have to do something to the SSC, the Modem, or Kermit to talk correctly to the modem? Do I possibly have a modem that is incompatable with the SSC? Is my SSC bad? Another trait of the arrangement that I have is that the modem hanges up before the computer PBX at work , a Micom switch, answers the phone. The Micom lets the phone ring twice before answering, the modem times out before the second ring. I would greatly appreciate any suggestions? Bruce Salem
CDTAXW@IRISHMVS.BITNET (01/23/87)
Bruce, Sounds like you parity setting from the symptoms you describe... Mark
jshaver@APG-5.ARPA.UUCP (01/26/87)
The problem is that Apple is so slow that several characters go by when it is processing the end of line and scrolling. In the past people have suggested reducing the number of lines displayed. I don't remember which software you were using, but the new Kermit from medin@noscget around that problem by using interrupts. Even this program looses lines when the printer does a carriage- return. John