Re: [NTLK] serial connection at more than 57600 on Windows?

From: Victor Rehorst (victor_at_newtontalk.net)
Date: Tue Mar 19 2002 - 11:02:00 EST


On Tue, 19 Mar 2002, Vladimir Alexiev wrote:

> Victor Rehorst <victor_at_newtontalk.net> on 18 Mar 2002
> > > Is there a Windows program that can connect at
> > > higher speeds?
> >This problem with NCU was just discussed
> >http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=newtontalk&m=101482480210590&w=2
>
> That says:
> ] NCU buffer for the speed is only 5 bytes long (plus the null terminator).
> ] NCU tries to talk at 11520 if you hack the registry
>
> I'm not too worried about the buffering because I got NCU running at
> Realtime priority on a 800Mhz Win2000 machine, so I think the speed will be
> sufficient.
>

You misunderstand. NCU only tried to read up to 5 bytes out of that
registry key to get the port speed. 115200 is six chars - six bytes. So
if you were to hack that value into the registry key, then NCU would only
read the first 5 bytes - "11520" - and try to connect at that speed.

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