PD>> There is no need for any help.  What I have been trying to do is show
 PD>> Paul that the problem is his by using the process of
"exhaustive"
 PD>> elimination.  I can name eight BBSs and four different comm programs
 PD>> that work fine with my modem.  If the problem is mine it is a bloody
 PD>> obscure one.

 RS> Yeah, when you put it like that, it does appear to be a problem on
 RS> Pauls. I havent seen it myself on uploads. OTOH I normally only upload
 RS> relatively small REPs. I did upload a 300K a few days ago, but that
 RS> was with the FrontDoor mailer. It went fine. Corse that proves
 RS> absolutely nothing about how uploading thru Maximus would behave.

Whether Maximus or Binkley, it is OS/2 that's handling the comms and
bufferring it, and responding to CTS/RTS, isn't it?  Also, Anthony and
Brenton have both uploaded stuff to me through Maximus.  Hey guys, you want
to try uploading stuff again, because I guess that did happen before OS/2
2.1.  Upload a 300k compressed file (call it junkam or junkbv) if you will.
 BTW, Phillip is only uploading small REP packets too.

 RS> We have in the last couple of days, since Sunday am, seen an odd
 RS> effect where there appears to be nothing getting thru from the his
 RS> modem to the application. I logon, I see Binkley's 'press esc' etc. It
 RS> doesnt appear to see my ESC at all and eventually times out and loads
 RS> Maximus anyway. Then Maximus just sits there with the 'What is your
 RS> name:' and never sees anything from me either.

 RS> It could be that in some circumstances that gets in the road of an
 RS> upload too, for example part way thru the upload nothing more is seen
 RS> of the upload by the BBS software.

The circumstances are different.  With an upload from Phillip, it has awful
trouble at a certain stage (even with Sealink), but it does manage to
continue, albeit slowly.  BTW, I would have thought Sealink would have
gotten around the problem of CTS/RTS, since it only ever sends 8*133
characters in advance, and I would have thought the modem buffer could have
handled this?

Paul

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