Serial problem with Zworld

[Andreas Mohr Usenet 10/01]

Pavel Troller <patrol at sinus.cz> wrote:
>> Just a quick update. Today's version still does
>> not work. Exactly the same error.
>> I'll keep trying and post a message when it
>> does work in the even anyone else is interested.
>> 
>> Thanks for the suggestion.
> Hi!
>   As I see, there is really something nasty with serial comm.
>   - My application doesn't recognize the measuring instrument,
> although it's able to dial it over the modem and recognizes that
> the modem got the carrier.
>   - Nokia Logo Manager and other tools for mobile phones don't
>     recognize the phones connected to the serial port.
>   - Your application doesn't recognize the Rabbit.
>   - There is at least one more case published here that an app
>     doesn't recognize the hardware (don't remember exactly which
>     kind of hardware it was).

>   It seems that there is _really_ a bug which is not visible from
> a simple terminal program but influences complex communication.
> Some of my ideas:
>   - Does wine correctly pass binary data (NULs, XON/XOFs...) ?
>   - Does overlapped duplex send/receiving work reliably ?
Yep, both handshaking/line control and overlapped operation are (still ?)
sort of problematic sometimes.

Fix it ! :)

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