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PKTerm '99 version 1.4b released
CSS, XPWARE and Timewave team up to find firmware issue with PK-232
Florence, Alabama. January 21, 2000: Creative Services Software announced
today that an updated version to PkTerm '99 has been released. Pkterm '99
release 1.4b overcomes a firmware issue that has been in the PK-232 TNC for
15 years.
On Sunday, January 16, 2000, CSS, XPware and Timewave teamed up on a 2-hour
conference call to discuss a problem that has been plaguing programmers who
use the AEA Host mode in non-polling mode. The focus of this discussion
finally put a pattern to replicating the firmware issue.
Rick Ruhl, President of CSS said "I was very happy to work with Gary Johnson
of XPWare and Randy Gawtry of Timewave to finally put some detail to this
dropping character issue that has been reported. It was quite a team effort
to narrow it down, and the results of that are better products from all the
companies involved".
The update is on the web at http://www.cssincorp.com/pkterm . It is a FREE
update for current owners of any of the previous PkTerm '99 versions.
Creative Services Software is at http://www.cssincorp.com
Windows, Windows 95, Windows 98 and Windows NT are Registered Trademarks of
Microsoft Corporation.
>.
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Date: Fri, 21 Jan 2000 22:45:32 -0500
From: "Rob" <Pse@NoEmail.Com>
Subject: PKTerm '99 version 1.4b released
Rick,
Can you elaborate on the solution reached to solve the problem. Other
programmers of terminal programs for AEA products would benefit.
Rob
"Rick Ruhl - CSS" <ricker@cssincorp.com> wrote in message
news:fP2i4.13949$wk.180732@news1.mia...
> PKTerm '99 version 1.4b released
>
> CSS, XPWARE and Timewave team up to find firmware issue with PK-232
>
> Florence, Alabama. January 21, 2000: Creative Services Software announced
> today that an updated version to PkTerm '99 has been released. Pkterm '99
> release 1.4b overcomes a firmware issue that has been in the PK-232 TNC
for
> 15 years.
>
> On Sunday, January 16, 2000, CSS, XPware and Timewave teamed up on a
2-hour
> conference call to discuss a problem that has been plaguing programmers
who
> use the AEA Host mode in non-polling mode. The focus of this discussion
> finally put a pattern to replicating the firmware issue.
>
> Rick Ruhl, President of CSS said "I was very happy to work with Gary
Johnson
> of XPWare and Randy Gawtry of Timewave to finally put some detail to this
> dropping character issue that has been reported. It was quite a team
effort
> to narrow it down, and the results of that are better products from all
the
> companies involved".
>
> The update is on the web at http://www.cssincorp.com/pkterm . It is a
FREE
> update for current owners of any of the previous PkTerm '99 versions.
>
> Creative Services Software is at http://www.cssincorp.com
>
> Windows, Windows 95, Windows 98 and Windows NT are Registered Trademarks
of
> Microsoft Corporation.
>
>
>
>
>.
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Date: Sat, 22 Jan 2000 05:11:46 GMT
From: "Rick Ruhl" <ricker@cssincorp.com>
Subject: PKTerm '99 version 1.4b released
Rob,
Actually the solution is simple but depends on the way you implement your
host packet parsing algorithm. The biggest problem was finding the way to
replicate the problem. It was an intermittent issue in single character
mode.
What we found was in single character mode, intermittently, the PK-233 (or
PK-900) would drop a trailing <ETB> if multiple commands were sent to the
TNC. As an example, sending ZSTATUS and ZFREE while receiving BAUDOT. The
TNC would end up dropping the trailing <ETB> on the command return, and
would end up becoming part of the next data packet from the TNC. Gary and I
feel it's something in the buffering and/or handshaking, and Timewave is
going to have the original firmware coder look into the firmware to see what
is going on.
Of course the solution is to assume an <ETB> if you get an <STX> and are not
in transparent character mode. Again this depends on how you parse the host
packet, to provide a workaround in your code.
Hope this is of use to you.
--
Rick Ruhl
President, Creative Services Software, Inc.
http://www.cssincorp.com
"Rob" <Pse@NoEmail.Com> wrote in message
news:lN9i4.207816$5r2.565231@tor-nn1.netcom.ca...
> Rick,
>
> Can you elaborate on the solution reached to solve the problem. Other
> programmers of terminal programs for AEA products would benefit.
>
> Rob
>
> "Rick Ruhl - CSS" <ricker@cssincorp.com> wrote in message
> news:fP2i4.13949$wk.180732@news1.mia...
> > PKTerm '99 version 1.4b released
> >
> > CSS, XPWARE and Timewave team up to find firmware issue with PK-232
> >
> > Florence, Alabama. January 21, 2000: Creative Services Software
announced
> > today that an updated version to PkTerm '99 has been released. Pkterm
'99
> > release 1.4b overcomes a firmware issue that has been in the PK-232 TNC
> for
> > 15 years.
> >
> > On Sunday, January 16, 2000, CSS, XPware and Timewave teamed up on a
> 2-hour
> > conference call to discuss a problem that has been plaguing programmers
> who
> > use the AEA Host mode in non-polling mode. The focus of this discussion
> > finally put a pattern to replicating the firmware issue.
> >
> > Rick Ruhl, President of CSS said "I was very happy to work with Gary
> Johnson
> > of XPWare and Randy Gawtry of Timewave to finally put some detail to
this
> > dropping character issue that has been reported. It was quite a team
> effort
> > to narrow it down, and the results of that are better products from all
> the
> > companies involved".
> >
> > The update is on the web at http://www.cssincorp.com/pkterm . It is a
> FREE
> > update for current owners of any of the previous PkTerm '99 versions.
> >
> > Creative Services Software is at http://www.cssincorp.com
> >
> > Windows, Windows 95, Windows 98 and Windows NT are Registered
Trademarks
> of
> > Microsoft Corporation.
> >
> >
> >
> >
>
>
>.
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Date: Sat, 15 Jan 2000 06:57:16 -0500
From: "lak" <lak@radio.land.com>
Subject: test
Disregard as this is test of my newsgroup reader after IE bomdbed out!
>.
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