marwood@ncs.dnd.ca (Gordon Marwood) (03/09/90)
I have been trying to run QMODEM under Desqview for a few weeks, and
although it runs fine for a while it has a tendency to crash the system,
or cause strange things to happen.
I started to use QMODEM as a replacement for PROCOMM Plus, because I
found that under Desqview, at 9600 bps, PC Plus would lose characters.
The system I am using is an IBM PS/2 Model 60 (286). It seems that this
character loss problem is particular to the PS/2, I think because of the
way the interrupts work. The solution was to find a comm program which
would use the 16550 UART in the PS/2 serial channel. Apparently, PC
Plus cannot do this (though I have heard some recent, unconfirmed
rumours that maybe there is a new version that solves this problem).
QMODEM offers this capability, and character loss dissappears. However,
the problems are as follows:
- The machine will sometimes re-boot when pressing a key other
than Ctl-Alt-Del.
- The font sometimes changes, to one which underlines all
characters which have decenders.
- Colours sometimes change.
- Cursor control is sometimes lost (i.e.. the arrow keys),
though everything else seems to work. This happens when
running WordPerfect as the second program, and QMODEM in the
background.
- QMODEM sometimes fails to execute at all on an open window
command, hanging the machine in the process.
If anyone has any comments, solutions etc, I would be pleased to hear.
I am running QMODEM 4.1, by the way, and the available memory includes an
Intel Aboveboard (LIMS 4.0).
Gordon Marwood
Internet: marwood@ncs.dnd.ca