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Message   Captain Fantastic    Tony Talarigo   DOS Port Buffer   October 18, 1995
 6:46 PM *   

Re: DOS Port Buffer

> I've a problem I am having a tussle to solve. If I 'COPY' something to
> the COM Port, it only accepts documents (to a Serial Printer) up to about
> 6k in size, then it halts. The Cutoff size is not effected by the environment
> I have set, nor does it seem to make a diff if I add a print spooler to the
> mix. It seems to be totally inherent to DOS.. ANY ideas?

Hmm...  Just a guess here, but I would suspect that there is little or no
supervision over the serial port with just a 'COPY'.  You are more than
likely overflowing the serial buffer.  Cant think of a good solution to this.

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