Path: utzoo!utgpu!watmath!clyde!att!tellab5!toth
From: toth@tellab5.tellabs.CHI.IL.US (toth@tellab2 (Tellabs, Inc., - Lisle, Il.))
Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple
Subject: Re: kermit and the lower left corner!
Summary: DSR/DTR not active
Message-ID: <1115@tellab5.tellabs.CHI.IL.US>
Date: 2 Dec 88 14:44:02 GMT
References: <8811282050.aa14476@SMOKE.BRL.MIL>
Organization: Tellabs, Inc. Lisle, IL
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I had the same type of problem with an AST Multi/IO card.

It continuously overflowed my Imagewriter 1k. print byffer during output
of any reasonably long basic program. I would enter the following:

>load 'any basic program'
>pr #1
>list  

after about 2/3 of a page, the output got munged because the device driver
would not recognize the CTS signal and just kept on dumping.

similarly on the device in slot 2, it never toggles its CTS to stop input
from the modem when it goes into the long delay to advance the screen when
a CR is done at the bottom of the screen.  This is necessary since it 
doesn't handle interrupts to receive input during times where the processor
is busy doing something else.

Asside from the print problems, the clock has the Year go back to 1971 or
something like that when entering 1988 or being set to 1988. :-(

If anybody knows what to do to get the AST card to work, I would also like
to hear about it.

AST manuals give no information about register addresses to configure the
device to use the control signals.  I have given up since 2 letters to AST
went unanswered. ( another :-( )
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Things can't really be as bad as they seem...	| Joseph G. Toth Jr.
Or CAN they!!!!					| ihnp4!tellab5!toth