On Wed, 2003-09-10 22:56:46 +0800, Michael Frank <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > On Saturday 06 September 2003 18:55, Jan-Benedict Glaw wrote: > > I've never seen that. My impression is that this (only?) happens if > > there are some bytes received from serial, but not read out from > > userspace. For NMEA, this is mostly always the case because the GPS > > receiver is sending data all the time:) > > _all_ the time or in packets with idle time between?
You get about 60 chars, 5 times per second.
> Rephrase, once it (the terminal emulator cu) hung _once_, exiting it,
> starting it again, it dumps a few hundred bytes (rarely the garbage you
> mentioned), and hangs again.
It didn't hang for me. Only the first few bytes after open() were
garbeled.
> What you said "some bytes received from serial, but not read out", can
> be what cu dumps on its restart. At that time, the hardware handshake
> also stops, so RTS never gets cleared and data coming in on the serial
> line are lost.
Maybe. I don't have access to the serial line because these are deeply
inside the GPS receiver...
MfG, JBG
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