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- From: grichard@cis.ohio-state.edu (Golden Richard)
- Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.apps
- Subject: Re: Commercial comm programs for OS/2
- Date: 21 Jan 1993 15:34:05 -0500
- Organization: The Ohio State University Dept. of Computer and Info. Science
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- In article <d9mikael.727613945@dtek.chalmers.se> d9mikael@dtek.chalmers.se (Mikael Wahlgren) writes:
- >>I do not want "everything" without paying for anything. I do expect a
- >>comm program to manage 9600 baud transfers w/o bringing a 386-class
- >>machine to its knees. When m2zmodem is in use, my system is basically
- >>unusuable for ANY other task. Under the default high priority setting
- >>(for 9600 baud+ transfers) the word "basically" doesn't even apply.
- >>TE/2 uses the same COM.SYS that m2zmodem uses and manages not to bring
- >>my machine to a crawl. If TE/2 didn't crash occasionally with COM1
- >>not available messages and had better zmodem error recovery, we
- >>wouldn't be having this discussion. For the record, my machine has a
- >>16450 UART.
- >
- >What type of 386 machine are you talking about? SX/DX ?? Mhz? I still
- >think your demands are higher than your willingness to pay for what you
- >want. On my PS/2 L40SX (20 Mhx 386/SX) ANY COM-program running at
- >9600 bauds continously will put the machine into a crawl. To demand
- >that you with this type of computer should be able to do a lot of other
- >things concurrently is to demand too much.
-
- It's a 25 MhZ 30386SL. What I'm demanding is that I be able to do
- ANYTHING besides run m2zmodem. I don't think I'm demanding too much,
- since as I said, TE/2 does NOT bring my machine to a crawl.
-
- >Why do you think you can't find any program that suits your demands?
- >TE/2 crashes, M2Zmodem puts everything to a crawl and so on. I wish
-
- I think I can't find a (shareware) comm program to suit my needs because no one
- has written one that's decent. I can't see how you're going to blame
- TE/2 crashes on the fact that I don't have a 66 MhZ '486. And the
- fact that TE/2 does pretty well except for those crashes leads me to
- believe that m2zmodem is simply not written well.
-
- >you all the luck in your search (you will need it)... BTW if you
- >register TE/2 you will get improved zmodem error recovery.
-
- I'll register TE/2 if and when the crashes are corrected in a
- shareware release (and I'm certainly NOT the only person who's
- experienced them, given both the comments on this newsgroup and
- personal communication).
- >
- --
- Golden Richard III OSU Dept. of Computer and Information Science
- grichard@cis.ohio-state.edu (614) 292-0056
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