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Suspect losing characters in serial comms using XON/XOFF

Subject:Suspect losing characters in serial comms using XON/XOFF
Posted by:"Steve Thomas" (steve.thom..@smiths-aerospace.com)
Date:7 Nov 2005 03:37:44 -0700

Using the Win32 API serial comms functions to send a Motorola S-Record file to an embedded device using XOn/XOff flow control, I suspect that the target device's receive buffer is overflowing in the time it takes for Windows to recognise an XOff character. How likely is this?

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