[A86] Re: Async Link Routine

To: assembly-86@lists.ticalc.org
Subject: [A86] Re: Async Link Routine
From: rabidcow@juno.com
Date: Tue, 12 Feb 2002 22:58:57 -0800
Reply-To: assembly-86@lists.ticalc.org


Is there any sort of software flow control or error correction in the
protocol that you could take advantage of?
If you're putting a higher level network stack on top of it, could you
just ignore errors at this level and let the checksum or whatever take
care of it?

-josh

On Tue, 12 Feb 2002 19:03:25 +0000 "David West" <bdaddy_mit@hotmail.com>
writes:
> 
> Hello,
> 
>      For my application I will not have control of the PC side.  I'm 
> trying 
> to write a program to dial into SLIP or PPP hosts.  I haven't 
> thought about 
> trying to use the USB link.  I wanted to run RS-232 eventually to 
> make use 
> of old 9600 baud external modems.  I could also just cook up my own 
> protocol 
> converter that is more user friendly, but I was hoping to build this 
> network 
> stack to be usible with the existing graphlink.  Cause I would think 
> most 
> people would have that.
> 
>      It sounds like people seem to agree that this is a real problem 
> and 
> that there isn't much to be done about using the graphlink in any 
> sort of 
> full-duplex way.
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> David E. West
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