[Coco] Ultimaterm problems

[Art Flexser]

This sounds similar to a problem I encountered many years ago with Colorcom-E's
Xmodem.  After much investigation, I traced it to the fact that the disk
controller was halting the CPU due to an accumulation of data to be stored to
disk.  I cured it by patching the terminal program to insert a short pause after
each block was stored on the disk, allowing the disk controller to catch up with
the CPU.  You might try seeing if the same problem occurs if you save the data
to ramdisk instead of physical disk;  if not, you've found the culprit.

Art

On Mon, 29 Dec 2008, Robert Gault wrote:

> Has anyone been able to receive more than 9 blocks of data in X-modem or 
> Y-modem with Ultimaterm?
> 
> I have two Ultimaterm programs one says version 4.0 the other 4.1, 
> although I'm not sure what if any difference there is. When receiving 
> data from Hyperterminal nul-modem, it is necessary to use X-modem on 
> Hyperterminal and Y-modem on Ultimaterm for the system to work.
> Sending data from Ultimaterm to the PC works, but receiving on the Coco 
> always fails with files of 10 or more blocks. The system hangs at the 
> 10th block.
> 
> There are no problems of any kind using OSterm under NitrOS-9 to receive 
> files from the PC.
> 
> There are no problems sending text by typing at either keyboard under 
> Basic or NitrOS-9 at 19200 baud with an RS-232 pak.
> 
> Are there any known problems with Ultimaterm? Is there a more recent 
> version of Ultimaterm? Is there a better program for Basic to receive 
> files, and don't mention Drivewire or CocoNet? :)
> 
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