#: 12356 S1/General Interest
    21-Sep-91  01:47:13
Sb: #12352-RSDOS TO OS9
Fm: Erich Schulman 75140,3175
To: Paul Hanke 73467,403 (X)

That's what I do.  I used to have sterm (1.2) download directly to floppy disk,
but back then I was using sterm only on the DC Modem Pak.  As you might
imagine, the speed of file transfers was not appreciably reduced. I still, as a
rule, make my downloads for both DECB and OS-9 under DECB. I use a 2400bps
modem under DECB and it works just fine.  But I once before started a thread
about having probs under OS-9 which were diagnosed as need of IRQ hack.  I
found back then that I lost only a few characters here and there on the display
at 1200 baud tho file transfers appeared completely reliable.  At 2400, I had a
lot of character loss but downloads did OK.  What I did for that was take
careful note of the Lib section and exact filename.  Since I've been on CIS so
many times, I know my way around well enough that I could lose a lot of
characters and still know where I was.  So what I'd do is log on then wait for
my modem's RD light to go out.  I'd GO OS9 and wait for some semblance of
"Forum !" and a dark RD light, and so on til I was ready to log off.  The
biggest problem I had was keeping track of my time since I could not depend on
a usable

Connect time = h:mm message after logoff.