I just figured out that TS-DOS seems to not like file names that are all in lowercase. I may just have licked this thing.
On 15 January 2018 at 12:27, John R. Hogerhuis <[email protected]> wrote: > > On Mon, Jan 15, 2018 at 12:18 PM you got me <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> what if the problem isn't with the cable, but the speed of the processor >> and a time out scenario? When I transfer files from a desktop to a TPDD I >> have to use an additional program called slowdown. When i set slowdown to >> emulate a pentium's speed all of my connections and transfers work fine. >> Just a thought. > > > I’ve never seen that. What I have seen is if the server takes too long to > respond, tsdos will time out and given an error. I’ve never seen anything > respond too fast for it. The way the communication works for tpdd is the > client sends a small request, and sits and waits for a small response. The > client cannot be overrun by responses because it set the pace by how fast it > makes new requests. > > The weird thing about what you’ve been describing is it seems like there is > definitely data corruption happening. I don’t see much of that. When I saw > it it was because the rs232 cable itself was flaky, in particular, the > signal ground wire. > > If you have multiple cables or laptops, particularly known good ones, it > would be good to start swapping parts. > > — John.
