#Draw Plus
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No, I'm refering to XON/XOFF. It shouldn't be on if you do alot of file
transfers …. there is a real possibility that a character in a file could be
a CTRL-S ….
OK, I understand. No, handshake has been turned off. I don't know if you want
to hear this, but I had another doozy the other night. I was on a local BBS
trying to download a PD terminal program so I could start ruling out causes of
this problem. I was on a fairly long Y-Modem download at 1200 baud, and I left
the room for a while. When I came back, no data was coming over the modem, and
the hard disk was doing this continuous write, as if it were writing an
extremely long file. This lasted for about ten minutes, when I finally got
nervous and hit the reset key sequence. Well, the C Ltd. hard disk drivers
took a few minutes to get things on the hard disk patched up (since I
apparently did reset during a write) but when the system finally came to life,
I was missing * 8 Megabytes of hard disk space. It looks like something went
into an endless loop write routing. Since Diga! was downloading and was the
only program that was SUPPOSED to be writing at that time, it is suspect. I
realize, though, that in a multitasking system, it is difficult to place
definite blame. But, I guess you can put this one in your files too, in case
it happens to someone else in the future.
John Burt 72446,2200
If Diga! does not disable Xon/Xoff when doing a file transfer, it is buggy. I
rather think that it must, but didn't want anyone to think that they would
normally have to disable Xon/Xoff for file transfers.
Regards, Larry.