Msg: 163 *Conference*
07-04-91 09:56:00
From: RICHARD HANSON
To : MARK BARTNIK
Subj: REPLY TO MSG #150 (COMMUNICATIONS PARAMETERS FOR M)
Mark: As we talked about on the phone, you are using two phone lines at your office to connect your Model 100 to your DOS machine. You're running TELCOM through an external modem on your Model 100, out one phone line and back in another phone line to your DOS computer running PROCOMM. So far so good. However, you're getting a { character on a regular basis. Right? The mystery is the fact that you are going through a PBX at your office. A PBX (private branch exchange) is a multiuser computer system where phones on desks are known as terminals. Terminals on a multiuser system get polled on a "regular" basis. I contend that your { character is the result of your terminal (phone) being polled. There are two ways around this problem. 1) Don't go through the PBX, i.e., get another phone line. 2) Use Konexx to go through the PBX (see our flyers for information on Konexx). Back to the subject at hand. If your purpose is to have your DOS machine in host mode and be able to modem into it from the outside world, then you should should use a dedicated phone line to the DOS computer. If, however, your purpose is to simply transfer files between your Model 100 and your DOS computer then there is only one efficent method. The very, very, very best and easiest, and factest, and fool-proof method is via Lapdos II (see our flyers for information on Lapdos II). I will stack this club's reputation on the value of Lapdos II for moving files between a DOS machine and a Radio Shack/Tandy Model 100, 102, 200, TPDD, TPDD2 or NEC PC8201a computer; or drive in the case of the TPDD and TPDD2. Hope this helps... -Rick-