Subj : Re: Using Dos Comms Software with Lantronix UDS-10
To   : Spectre
From : kirkspragg
Date : Fri Jun 07 2024 16:28:09

 Sp> I started this reply before noticing that you'd swapped TCPser out for
 Sp> something else.  You'll need to keep in mind that any serial/tcp

I'm still using TCPser. I did try without using the UDS-10's build in telnet capabilities just to see if it helped & it does. But that doesn't support DNS, so I'd have to get & update the ip addresses of my fav BBSes if I continues down that route.

 Sp> something else.  You'll need to keep in mind that any serial/tcp
 Sp> conversion is going to add latency to the stream.  So does any port
 Sp> extra port forwarding. I have this kind of problem on TLP. I'm using
 Sp> RLFOSSIL for the serial/tcp conversion, and I have inboard port
 Sp> forwarding to make each node active off one outside port, which has
 Sp> already been forwarded to the system with node selection on it.  Even
 Sp> running all of this on the same system adds significant overheard.
 Sp> 
 Sp> I believe all that gets in the way of ANSI detection, involving some
 Sp> escape sequence, it fails 50-75% of the time.  Also stops file transfers

That fits with my observations. I think the combination of serial/tcp conversion and my comms software being a bit laggy mess up the ANSI detection. I managed to alleviate this by using door mode or something similar which disabled a few features (status bar, pop up menus ect) in my comms software & things started behaving.

Have been playing around with procom plus & GTO Power's terminal software for dos. I've got telix and terminate downloaded somewhere to also play with.

 Sp> Ponder, I haven't followed this much at all, but a 286 12Mhz+ ought to be
 Sp> able to push 19.2k on an 8250/16450 with no fuss.

I've not been able to get anything over 19.2k to work reliably so far & I have been using a util called 16550 to enable the fifo buffers. I'll try other comms software out and see if that helps.

.... Battle Creek makes cereal terminals.

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