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DOS, Windows 95 and Serial Port

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by thetravman

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O.K. While everyone is working on my network problem, here's another one.
I have a DOS program that must communicate with a machine through the serial port or COM 1.
The computer runs Win95 because the program won't run under anything else.
The problem is it will only feed the machine at a steady rate if I reboot and run directly from DOS. If I'm in windows it feeds steady up to a point then slows to a crawl. The program sets up its own settings for the serial transfer and pays no attention to the Windows settings whatsoever so how is Windows affecting it?
The machine will only accept a baud rate of 9600, so I can't speed this up.
Any help out there?

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by m.cothran

Doesnt sound like much you can do since you machine only has serial ports. Can you not upgrade it. What kind of machine is it? It didnt come out of a police car did it!

by thetravman

The machine we have to feed is an older milling machine that depends on cutting paths input from the 95 computer.
I just needed to know what kind of stupid tricks Windows is pulling with the serial port since the program runs fine from DOS.
Let meknow if you have any ideas.
Thanks.

by eugjor

My friend ihave the same problem that you, i use a little program that run under DOS & win95, THE FX program, this work with serial and paralel port, and it can increase the baud velocity more tna 9600, is easy to use and it`s safe to use

My name is Jorge Lopez my email is Eugjor@netscape.com

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