On Mon, 2009-09-07 at 15:43 -0500, folderol wrote: > I've also now found the real cause of the original problem. The makers > of the kit I was trying to link were cheapskates and instead of using > a proper serial chip, they used a diode-resistor-capacitor trick to > level shift 0-15V swings to +-7V (ish). However, there was a dry joint > on the diode so it took qute a few cycles before it had built up the > DC offset - hence the first few characters being missing. > Well spotted indeed. I guess you have access to a 'scope. > The fact that TeraTerm was exhibiting (apparently) similar behaviour > totally threw me off the track :( > I tried it years ago, didn't rate it a lot and ended up standardising on PuTTY for ssh and telnet plus Kermit for serial comms. You may be right about Kermit starting off as pure file transfer. I've certainly seen versions that were purely CLI file transfer tools. As, in those days, file transfer was usually preceded by logging on and starting the remote server and followed by stopping the server and logging off, I imagine it grew terminal capabilities PDQ. Martin
