man my memory is going.
John we did a bunch of work tweaking newdos to get it to run across wide
area network delays.
I have an entire project here that I completely forgot about!
Anyways where we left it was version 6 of newdos 5.02.  It seems to work
much much better.  did find one problem, that "listing" a document seems to
not tolerate delays.
Steve

On Sun, Apr 4, 2021 at 9:04 PM John R. Hogerhuis <[email protected]> wrote:

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>
> On Sun, Apr 4, 2021 at 5:19 PM Stephen Adolph <[email protected]>
> wrote:
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>> Is tsdos that difficult?  Strict timing?
>>
>>
> Yeah the timeouts in TS-DOS cause compatibility problems with all the TPDD
> emulators. TS-DOS implements timeouts, and was tuned for interaction with
> real TPDD drives and Desklink running on DOS machines... Desklink + DOS +
> PC was able to focus purely on the task of TPDD service.  Which even on old
> hardware given hardware FIFOs, and being the only application running was a
> low latency affair.
>
> Testing with TEENY would address one factor since it doesn't do any
> timeouts.
>
> If not possible, confirm the combination of Ken's modified TS-DOS +
> timeout settings works with real laptop + TPDD or emulator, then
> secondarily VirtualT + TPDD or emulator.
>
> -- John.
>

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