ProTERM 3.1 with Null-Modem link to PC

[Chris M <chris@sorry.no.spam.com>]

Hiya All..

I've been playing around with a VB.NET program to talk to my //e,
which has a Super Serial Card II in it.

To test things on the Apple II side, I'm using ProTERM 3.1.  I set up
a "system" in ProTERM called "LOCAL", 9600, and no phone number.  On
the PC side, I open the COM1: port and on the Apple //e side I tell
ProTERM to Dial.  ProTERM sees the connection and if I send characters
from the PC to the Apple //e REALLY REALLY slow (like 0-baud! 1 char
every 2 seconds) they show up, but anything faster and it prints the
first character and nothing else (once in a while it'll print an extra
character I sent.)

Example:

  PC sends: TESTING123

  ProTERM shows: T

If I repeat it a bunch of times (I've tried this at 300, 1200, and
9600 baud):

  PC sends: TESTING123TESTING123TESTING123TESTING123

  ProTERM shows: TT2T

I'm wondering if ProTERM is actually busy trying to do something else
- like read a response code from the modem that it maybe thinks is
there?  Not sure..

I'm sure the connection is working, though -- If I go into AppleSoft
and do "IN#2", then the Apple sees everything find.  I can send data
at 9600 baud and it shows up on the //e fine.

Anyone know if ProTERM can handle null-modem connections?

Maybe I'll just program the PC side to emulate a modem.. Then maybe
ProTERM will be happy about things.. I'd like to use ProTERM as it's
got a lot of file transfer stuff built in..

// CHRIS