Re: Tenma multimeter RS-232 software FUBAR

In article <vhdpb1l2ubqu5k115869t2bkbua1i2gh08@xxxxxxx>,
James Meyer <the.hand> wrote:
[...]
> Oh, and now that Tenma's software is working, I can see that the serial
>link is dropping data about one time out of every six or eight samples. The
>link on sci.electronics.equipment that Matt Roberds and I found about the same
>time mentioned that little "feature". I'll have to go back and see if there was
>any resolution to that.

Do you have any fancy CD writing software installed? On my Win98, the
serial port lost characters when I installed such software. It seems it
goes to look for a CD from time to time *WITH THE BLOODY INTERRUPTS OFF*

Also: Try bringing up a DOS window and running some DOS com program with
a source of serial data connected. Write a file and then create a
software kludge to look of missed characters. This will tell you if the
problem is really their software.

Laptops tend to be the worst about having Windows take long naps with the
interrupts disabled.

--
--
kensmith@xxxxxxxxx forging knowledge

.