Pcomm

[Michael J. Young]

In article <387 at dalek.UUCP> sjb at dalek.UUCP (Seth J. Bradley) writes:
>A program called Pcomm was just posted on comp.sources.unix.
>I tried compiling it under System V/AT, that went OK, but I
>got a segmentation fault-core dump when I tried to run it.
>I've tried it both with and without -O, same results.  Has
>anyone hacked the source to run under V/AT?  If so, will it
>support a 9600 baud session, or is this an imposibility with 
>the current driver?  Any help would be appreciated!

I've been working on getting pcomm working under System V/AT.  Unfortunately,
the code is riddled with dereferenced NULL pointers and assumptions about
sizeof (char *) == sizeof (int).  So far I've gotten the basic stuff working,
like auto-dialing and xmodem transfers.

So far I've only tried downloads at 1200 baud, and even at that speed I have
seen block timeouts if there is any significant system activity.
Fortunately, the program seems to handle them gracefully.  I intend to try
2400 baud as soon as I get some other minor things working, but I think 9600
baud is out of the question.

The initial sweat of getting it to work is significant, but it's kind of
neat once you get it going.  I'll post more details once I wring it out
some more.
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