Re: Serial Link between Mac and IIgs

["Michael J. Mahon" <mjmahon@aol.com>]

oz390gta wrote:
> I have been trying to set up a stable/fast serial link between my IIgs
> (ROM03) and my MacPro with a Keyspan USB to serial adapter. This
> connection works fine with ADTPro and it is quite quick at 115200
> kbps. When I try a serial link with ProTerm on the GS and zterm on my
> Mac I can not get a reliable connection above 9600 kbps. I ideally
> want to transfer files between the machines at a half decent speed in
> SHK format so I am not stuck with having to convert SHK to DSK or 2mg
> files before sending them via ADTPro.
>
>  Am I using the right software? The hardware seems OK as it works with
> ADTPro. Am I running into some limitations I don't know about?

ADTPro uses much tighter code to manage the serial link than ProTerm.
ProTerm never expected to see very high communication speeds.

If you want to do file transfers, keep using ADTPro and you will do
much better.

-michael

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