In a message to Anthony about "hang", david said:

AM> When he installed SIO, the problem went away.  I'm not sure what he is
AM> using at the moment.

db> Whatever it is/was, seems the problem doesn't completely go
db> away if his system locks during a file transfer.  :-(

I don't think it does 'lock' in the sense you are thinking - at least
that's not how I interpret 'Paulese' - the com port is just
incommunicado, so it appears to us that his system has locked up.

'tnt, Amfony.                           
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