Ian Timms wrote in a message to Jerry Mcbride:

JM>Ian Timms wrote in a message...
JM> 
JM> IT> Get hold of RXASYNC.ZIP, available via ftp on
JM> IT> ftp-os2.cdrom.com, also Compuserve OS2DF1 LIB 6 (as RXASYN.ZIP) 
JM> IT> and many BBSs. New version coming soon. (BTW I'm the author, 
JM> IT> please excuse the plug). 
JM>
JM>I worked, long and hard, to get RXASYNC to work. I literally 
JM>ran up against a brick wall, I'm afraid. Would you do me a 
JM>favor and include some working rexx scripts in the next release?

 IT> Well Jerry it seems you didn't try hard enough, or you would 
 IT> have made the effort before to send me a message. ;-)  I bet 
 IT> you don't have a 16550 UART, as this would be the _only_ reason 
 IT> for you not being able to get it to work, 

Hi Ian,

It looks as though you lost that bet. The uarts in my machine are 16550's!
Actually, it's an STB 4com card that provided 4 16550's on a single chip.

 IT> and yes I did post a message detailing the parameter change 
 IT> required to overcome this.  

I missed it, but then again maybe I ignored it as it delt with 8250's...

 IT> I have used RXASYNC daily since well before I first uploaded 
 IT> it, to download/upload mail to the local bulletin board. For 
 IT> even my feeble efforts this has been something of a success 
 IT> IMHO.

This is great information. You're doing what I want to do! :') I often
wondered why rexx didn't handle serial better? Now it looks as though it
will.

 IT> As it happens the new version is ready, I am just bundling up 
 IT> some extra scripts to go with it this weekend and it will 
 IT> appear on hobbes etc. sometime on Monday as RXASYN20.ZIP.

That's terrific, but I don't have an internet access. Is there a bbs
(yours' for example) that I can freq/download it from?

 IT> Please tell me what you think, and if you have any problems 
 IT> getting it to work I'd be more than happy to help you resolve 
 IT> them.

That's a "Whay cool" offer. Probably... I won't need it though...

 IT> Just for the record here is the detail which gets around the 
 IT> 8250 UART problem.

 IT> The following MODE setting is recommended to be placed in your 
 IT> STARTUP.CMD file for best results:

 IT> MODE COM4...

 IT> Note that I have DSR checking disabled, my modem does not
 IT> appear to handle the DSR signal correctly, if you are not
 IT> getting any response from yours then the same may well be
 IT> true. Also having this enabled may cause unpredictable
 IT> responses when using the SIO drivers. (Ray may have fixed
 IT> this now, however I do not use SIO these days except for
 IT> testing so your mileage may vary.)

I do use sio and I'll report how it all works.

 IT> You should also use the following Hayes or equivalent modem
 IT> settings: 

 IT>     E0, Q0, V1, X4 or X6, &C1, &D2

These are pretty much standard fair...

 IT> If you do NOT have a 16550 UART then you will need to make sure 
 IT> that the DCB information supplied to the RxAsyncSetDcbInfo 
 IT> routine is appropriate. Usually this means using '00000010' for 
 IT> Flags3 and setting BUFFER=OFF in the MODE command above.

This doesn't effect me, but I'll log it into my tips.txt collection. 

Thanks!

Jerry McBride 
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