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Date:      Mon, 1 Jan 2001 12:22:45 +0200 (IST)
From:      Roman Shterenzon <roman@harmonic.co.il>
To:        Stan Brown <stanb@awod.com>
Cc:        freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Serial port character loss
Message-ID:  <Pine.LNX.4.10.10101011221300.21348-100000@shark.harmonic.co.il>
In-Reply-To: <20001230214035.127F237B402@hub.freebsd.org>

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This belongs to questions I think.
I don't know what is the problem here; I once used sysdep1.c from minicom
in one project, and it worked just fine!
You can probably make a .xs perl module from it.

On Sat, 30 Dec 2000, Stan Brown wrote:

> I am writing a perl program to take in serial data, pares it, and put it n a
> database.
> 
> Today I started geting wierd results, and after debuging for while discovered I was
> losing characters. Check all the obvious handshaking issues, and did not find it,
> so I resorted to minicom to check to see if it was my code. Mushc to my suprise I
> find that I can not reliably transfer characters betwee 2 STABLE machine. One is a
> P75 ,and th othe is a PII 233.
> 
> Both have what I _thought were decent UARTS:
> 
> sio0 at port 0x3f8-0x3ff irq 4 flags 0x10 on isa0
> sio0: type 16550A
> 
> Any sugestions to make this work? BTW, I tried both Xoff/Xon and hardware
> handshaking. If I inser 1/2 secind delay betwen each line, all is well.
> 
> 
> 
> -- 
> Stan Brown     stanb@awod.com                                    843-745-3154
> Charleston SC.
> -- 
> Windows 98: n.
> 	useless extension to a minor patch release for 32-bit extensions and
> 	a graphical shell for a 16-bit patch to an 8-bit operating system
> 	originally coded for a 4-bit microprocessor, written by a 2-bit 
> 	company that can't stand for 1 bit of competition.
> -
> (c) 2000 Stan Brown.  Redistribution via the Microsoft Network is prohibited.
> 
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--Roman Shterenzon, UNIX System Administrator and Consultant
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