OK, I feel really stupid, having bragged so much about being experienced with ancient stuff like RS232 and such, but here it goes: my Linux laptop just died, and I am reduced to using Windows. I can't get frigging HyperTerm to work correctly. First, it does not append CRs to LFs. I would have fixed that on empeg side by changing stty settings, but HT does not seem to deliver any keystrokes to the player. I tried various emulations, verified that handshaking was off, verified that nothing else is using the port, and used emplode succesfully over the same port and cable.

I must be something trivial....

Dragi "Bonzi" Raos
Zagreb, Croatia
Q#5196, MkII#80000376, 18GB green

Generally, CRs and LFs are OK in their default settings in Hyperterminal/Windows with the empeg. The only changes from the default you should need to make are the ones listed in my FAQ entry about Hyperterminal. Did you go through that?

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Tony Fabris

...the ones listed in my FAQ entry about Hyperterminal. Did you go through that?

Obviously not carefully enough . Rebooting the player helped. Does anybody have an explanation for that?

Thanks!



Dragi "Bonzi" Raos
Zagreb, Croatia
Q#5196, MkII#80000376, 18GB green

Obviously not carefully enough

Or not recently enough. I added that reboot paragraph fairly recently. I think I'd mentioned it offhandedly in previous versions of the FAQ, but in the last update I set it off in its own paragraph.

Incidentally, that problem only seems to happen for me under NT. I don't recall ever having to reboot the player on Win98.

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Tony Fabris

Incidentally, that problem only seems to happen for me under NT. I don't recall ever having to reboot the player on Win98.

Curiouser and curiouser (or something), as prof. Dodgson would have said... I am running W98, and needed to reboot the player only once (with several restarts of HT and even Win machine and one player upgrade (finally) in the meantime).

Hmm, I think I still have room for one drive in W98 box. I think I will make it double boot .

Cheers!


Dragi "Bonzi" Raos
Zagreb, Croatia
Q#5196, MkII#80000376, 18GB green

Two possible reasons:

a) Hyperterminal auto-detects some settings (not sure entirely what, though). Sending the boot messages from the player may help it get its head straight.
b) If emplode is configured to look for the player on serial, the player gets put into protocol mode, and output no longer appears on the serial. Rebooting the player puts it back.


Roger - not necessarily speaking for empeg

One (possibly helpful) bit of advice from experience: Hyperterminal is an awful piece of software. Download and use a real terminal program, and you'll save a lot of time and effort. I use Van Dyke Technologies CRT, which is a damn good program which supports serial, ethernet, and virtually every protocol you've ever heard of.

Stable and easy to use, I can really recommend it. Hyperterminal on the other hand... Gahh!

Patrick.

Opinions expressed in this email may contain up to 42% water by weight, and are mine. All mine.

Yeah, what he said. Except that I use Teraterm.


Roger - not necessarily speaking for empeg

While it's obvious that there are better programs out there than Hyperterminal, the reason I give support for it in the FAQ is that it comes with Windows and everyone has it. That way, I only have to give one set of instructions.

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Tony Fabris

Teraterm is great, especially with the ssh plugin... =)

Jazz
(List 112, Mk2 12 gig #40. Mk1 4 gig #30. Mk3 1.6 16v)

But that's what SecureCRT is for. I'll have to agree with Patrick, I've been using SecureCRT since it came out, and I've never looked back. Check out Van Dyke Technologies.

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Donato
MkII/Blue/40GB/080000565