[Coco] RS-232 Pak problems

[phil pt]

I made a comment earler today about controling the incoming data flow using
time events that the programing lanuages support.

On Mon, Feb 5, 2018 at 7:01 PM, Allen Huffman <alsplace at pobox.com> wrote:

> > On Feb 5, 2018, at 5:24 PM, rietveld rietveld <rietveldh at hotmail.com>
> wrote:
> >
> > That's great news Allen
> >
> > Will u put me done for one pls
> >
> > I am excited to find a use for my RS232 pak again
>
> I have your message flagged.
>
> There is a larger issue to solve now, which will increase the cost by a
> bit. Without hardware flow control, OS-9 has no way to tell the WiFi module
> to stop sending data. Data continues to come in, buffer fills faster than
> the screen can output it, and we lose characters.
>
> There are RS232-to-TTL adapters that add the flow control lines, and the
> WiFi module firmware I am using supports that, so I’ll know soon if that
> helps. (I have one on order from Amazon, arriving tomorrow.)
>
> This means only Carrier Detect won’t be implemented.
>
> I have my OS-9 system running the OSTerm remote mode “BBS” thing at my
> subetha.ddns.net:6809 address at the moment. Works, but loses a lot of
> data. Not good, yet.
>
>                 — A
>
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