File Transfer weirdness

Rob Freundlich (RSF@mother.idx.com)
Fri, 31 Mar 95 12:18 PST

I was trying to use ZDOS from my PC at home, and got some really weird results.
Depending on the File Transfer speed set on the Zoomer, and the baud rate of
the COM port, I would get either no connection or garbage.

The no-connection I understand. Radically incompatible speeds can do this (ie
Zoomer at 19200 and PC at 2400). But in cases where the speeds were the same,
I was getting garbage. The commands were going to the Zoomer, since I could
see, for example, a dir listing on it. However, what came back to the PC was
strange. It looked like the junk you get when you have a close-but-not-right
baud rate on a terminal. For example, 9600 talking to 19200. You know, some
chars right, others dropped or bit-foo'd.

I tried different variants on stop bit, parity, data size, with no success.

Any clues?

Note: it's not too big a deal, since my PC at work talks to my Zoomer just
fine, so I can do xfers there.

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