rmartin@remus.rutgers.edu (Rich Martin) (01/25/91)
I am trying to use my 8-bit as a 9600 baud terminal, but Kermit 65 drops characters at an annoying rate. Does anyone know a way (other than clearing the sceen) to keep kermit from losing characters? I would like to keep using kermit because the 80-column vt00 emulation is alot easier to use with unix machines. Thanks- -Rich rmartin@remus.rutgers.edu
nin15b0b@merrimack.edu (David E. Sheafer, Class of 1989) (01/25/91)
In article <Jan.24.22.15.10.1991.14116@remus.rutgers.edu>, rmartin@remus.rutgers.edu (Rich Martin) writes: > I am trying to use my 8-bit as a 9600 baud terminal, but Kermit 65 drops > characters at an annoying rate. Does anyone know a way (other than > clearing the sceen) to keep kermit from losing characters? I would > like to keep using kermit because the 80-column vt00 emulation is > alot easier to use with unix machines. Thanks- > -Rich > rmartin@remus.rutgers.edu One possible solution that may or may not work is pressing the Atari Inverse key on and off I believe that this starts and stops flow control. -- David E. Sheafer internet: nin15b0b@merrimack.edu or uucp: samsung!hubdub!nin15b0b GEnie: D.SHEAFER Bitnet: Sheafer_davi@bentley
gdtltr@chopin.udel.edu (root@research.bdi.com (Systems Research Supervisor)) (01/25/91)
In article <Jan.24.22.15.10.1991.14116@remus.rutgers.edu> rmartin@remus.rutgers.edu (Rich Martin) writes: => =>I am trying to use my 8-bit as a 9600 baud terminal, but Kermit 65 drops =>characters at an annoying rate. Does anyone know a way (other than =>clearing the sceen) to keep kermit from losing characters? I would =>like to keep using kermit because the 80-column vt00 emulation is =>alot easier to use with unix machines. Thanks- => -Rich => rmartin@remus.rutgers.edu Try turning on flow control; that should do it. It seems that the Kermit-65 screen handler is too slow (especially at scrolling) to handle even 2400 bps. I have seen proposed improvements on the scrolling algorithm which I imagine would speed things up a bit, but I doubt that it could ever handle a steady stream at 9600 bps. An increase in input buffer size would help most cases, though. Gary Duzan Time Lord Third Regeneration -- gdtltr@brahms.udel.edu _o_ ---------------------- _o_ [|o o|] Two CPU's are better than one; N CPU's would be real nice. [|o o|] |_o_| Disclaimer: I AM Brain Dead Innovations, Inc. |_o_|
portuesi@tweezers.esd.sgi.com (Michael Portuesi) (01/26/91)
>>>>> On 25 Jan 91 14:48:49 GMT, gdtltr@chopin.udel.edu (root@research.bdi.com (Systems Research Supervisor)) said: > In article <Jan.24.22.15.10.1991.14116@remus.rutgers.edu> rmartin@remus.rutgers.edu (Rich Martin) writes: > => Does anyone know a way (other than > =>clearing the sceen) to keep kermit from losing characters? > I have seen proposed improvements on the scrolling > algorithm which I imagine would speed things up a bit, but I doubt > that it could ever handle a steady stream at 9600 bps. I'll bet that you could make a screen scrolling algorithm that keeps up at 9600 bps by using a custom display list, with every line of text mapped to a different location in memory. Then, to scroll the screen up a line, you merely rewrite the pointers in the display list instead of copying data. The memory holding the line which scrolled off the top of the screen is then used to hold the next line of text at the bottom of the screen. m. -- __ \/ Michael Portuesi Silicon Graphics, Inc. portuesi@sgi.com "Long before one is anything like drunk, the tongue is loosened, and words may slip out which should never have been said. Watch this particularly when it's all girls together. That femimine urge to confide may trick you into repeating what your husband said about the president and the boss's wife and how that had a lot to do with the boss's promotion -- words one of the women present is sure to make you regret some day." --Nina Fischer, "How to Help Your Husband Get Ahead" part of the Amy Vanderbilt Success Program for Women
Chris_F_Chiesa@cup.portal.com (01/27/91)
Odd, I've never seen Kermit65 drop characters at 2400 baud, Gary... That's using it with a VAX/VMS system, with all the screen-control that goes on in the EDT text editor and similar applications... And I know I never did anything about Flow Control, because it comes as a total surprise to me to hear that there's even a way to influence it. Any comments?
Chris_F_Chiesa@cup.portal.com (01/27/91)
Michael,
This isn't an Atari-related message, but I noticed you work for SGI...
I work for a company which sells turnkey Digital Image Recorder systems,
based on the DEC MicroVAX computer. Some of the systems we've placed in
the field are configured to connect, via Ethernet, to SGI-based turnkey
graphics workstations, and we've had some incompatibility problems. Evi-
dence suggests it may be a TCP/IP "tuning" problem, either on the VAX or
on the SGI box; I have software tools for manipulating the VAX side but
there appears to be NOTHING on the SGI system(s) for examining or tweaking
Ethernet interface parameters.
I don't presume that you, yourself, necessarily know ANYTHING about this -- but
I wonder if you could recommend anyone I could talk to about it? I've
found it impossible to approach SGI on the "authority" of my customer's
SGI service contract, because THAT expired before SGI had even gotten
my customer's system up-and-running, and my customer is loath to pay
by the hour for out-of-contract assistance. I am hoping that as a "fellow
vendor" I might bypass this bottleneck. Any suggestions?
Thanks in advance for anything you can suggest.
Chris Chiesa
Software Engineer
Light Valve Technology, A Kodak Company
Chris_F_Chiesa@cup.portal.com <-- account NOT related to employment!gdtltr@chopin.udel.edu (root@research.bdi.com (Systems Research Supervisor)) (01/29/91)
In article <38513@cup.portal.com> Chris_F_Chiesa@cup.portal.com writes: =>Odd, I've never seen Kermit65 drop characters at 2400 baud, Gary... That's =>using it with a VAX/VMS system, with all the screen-control that goes on in =>the EDT text editor and similar applications... And I know I never did =>anything about Flow Control, because it comes as a total surprise to me to =>hear that there's even a way to influence it. Any comments? It tends to lose stuff when scrolling. Cursor movement and such aren't really as much a problem. Gary Duzan Time Lord Third Regeneration -- gdtltr@brahms.udel.edu _o_ ---------------------- _o_ [|o o|] Two CPU's are better than one; N CPU's would be real nice. [|o o|] |_o_| Disclaimer: I AM Brain Dead Innovations, Inc. |_o_|