Path: utzoo!utgpu!water!watmath!clyde!burl!codas!killer!elg From: elg@killer.UUCP (Eric Green) Newsgroups: comp.sys.cbm Subject: Re: C-128 CP/M UART support Message-ID: <2438@killer.UUCP> Date: 12 Dec 87 02:48:40 GMT References: <2475@dcatla.UUCP> Organization: Bayou Telecommunications Lines: 34 in article <2475@dcatla.UUCP>, mclek@dcatla.UUCP (Larry E. Kollar) says: > In article <2404@killer.UUCP> elg@killer.UUCP (Eric Green) writes: >>I've been playing with the C-128's CP/M since getting a 1750 RAM expander. One >>thing I absolutely hate about it is that modem I/O is so slow and unreliable. > I'm using it right now, to read this newsgroup. For the last 20 minutes or so, > I've been downloading things. No problems, and the 1750 works just fine. Of > course, I'm going 300 bps with MEX. I'm at 1200 baud. I look at the lights on my modem (an Avatex 1200), and watch the RD light flash, then a ^S on the SD and the RD stops, then a while later a ^Q on the SD and the RD starts again... the screen lay is at about 800 baud or so, I estimate, and the poor dear is being flow-controlled to death. And when I'm using PC Pursuit, where flow control and Xmodem don't both work at the same time, it drops characters (the only time I use CP/M and PC Pursuit is when I'm downloading something using IMP's 1K protocol -- hmm, anybody have the dox on how that 1K protocol works? I know it ain't Ymodem -- or is it?). > While I got y'all's attention, why does Power-C 128 like to generate > "Syntax Errors" on what appears to be perfectly good code? Hmm? Methinks you're talking about "ced". I used the "check" feature of "ced" to check my syntax maybe three or four times, and each time it said that a bunch of things were syntax errors -- when they compiled right away when I tried compiling them (e.g. the CASM posted to the net eons ago). I have had few problems with unwanted "syntax error" messages. I remember I had to move a few static variables in the "unshar" program that I downloaded from the net (in order to unshar CASM, of course!), but otherwise it compiled remarkably well for something never intended to run on a "toy" computer. -- Eric Lee Green elg@usl.CSNET Snail Mail P.O. Box 92191 {cbosgd,ihnp4}!killer!elg Lafayette, LA 70509 "There's someone in my head, but it's not me...." -PF