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Windows 95 using V124, dropping characters (AREV Specific)

At 24 APR 1998 01:29:26AM Clyde Walker wrote:

My customer wants to convert a scale reading application from

Windows 3 to 95, the problem is with serial ports under windows 95.

The reads are missing characters using V124, has anyone found an answer to this problem? I have installed timeing loops to slow things

down however the problem remains. Thanks

At 24 APR 1998 04:59AM Egbert Poell wrote:

I have a lookalike problem at a clients site. Finally we brought the

PC where it happened back to DOS.

If someones finds an answer I am very interested.

TIA

Egbert Poell

Mecomp Automatisering

At 27 APR 1998 11:18PM Chris Vaughan wrote:

We had a similar (maybe not identical) problem.

The Arev application is talking to a Unix based application over a serial line.

After ungrading to faster PC's, transmisions became unreliable.

ASCII character Zero (char(48)) was intermittently dropped on incoming transmissions, while certain charcters over char(127) were mistranslating on the outgoing transmissions (character received was not character sent).

Because we had the source code for both ends, we simply translated all messages into a code subset. Its ugly, but it works OK for this Client.

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